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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Hastings, NE

May 26, 2000Phillips County, Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2000, 7:38 PM CDT for Phillips County, Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 2000, 7:38 PM CDT (00:38 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 26, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 204 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2000-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 21 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2000-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 131 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
969 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

098 
WFUS53 KGID 270040
TORGRI
KSC147-163-270130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
738 PM CDT FRI MAY 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN ROOKS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
  SOUTHWESTERN PHILLIPS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 738 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 21
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF NORTON...OR 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOGAN...MOVING
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO TRACK OVER RURAL AREAS NEAR THE PHILLIPS...
ROOKS COUNTY LINE.

A TORNADO HAS BEEN SIGHTED. PEOPLE IN NORTHWESTERN ROOKS AND 
SOUTHWESTERN PHILLIPS COUNTIES SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A 
BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

$$

&

LAT...LON 3968 9983 3943 9985 3943 9929 3969 9928

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips48 min
May 26, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDRooks45 min
May 26, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne40 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes in 2000

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.