Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 42, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Nov 5, 2000, 5:38 PM CST for Adams County, Nebraska. It was in force for 37 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 5, 2000, 5:38 PM CST (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 5, 2000, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Adams County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 5:48 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Ayr, NE | |
| Nov 5, 6:16 PM CST | Hail 1.25 | Hastings, NE |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 189 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGID 052339 TORGRI NEC001-060015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 538 PM CST SUN NOV 5 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN ADAMS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 615 PM CST * AT 536 PM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER AYR...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF HASTINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HASTINGS AT 555 PM CST TRUMBULL AT 615 PM CST THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION...AND INCLUDES THE CITY OF HASTINGS. A FUNNEL CLOUD HAS BEEN SIGHTED NEAR AYR. PEOPLE IN EASTERN ADAMS COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. NEVER TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. IF IN A VEHICLE...LEAVE IT IMMEDIATELY AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO8 SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. $$ & LAT...LON 4047 9851 4036 9840 4043 9828 4073 9827 DDN NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 5, 4:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | GID | Clay | 24 min |
| Nov 5, 4:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton | 41 min |
| Nov 5, 5:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams | 47 min |
| Nov 5, 5:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Webster | 26 min |
| Nov 5, 5:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton, Polk, York | 38 min |
| Nov 5, 5:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | GID | Polk, York | 50 min |
| Nov 5, 5:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin | 44 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.