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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Hastings, NE

June 11, 2000York County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2000, 6:43 PM CDT for York County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 min. 3 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: Jun 11, 2000, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County York County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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
Jun 11, 6:45 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Mc Cool Jct, NE
Jun 11, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado F0	York, NE
Jun 11, 7:20 PM CDT	Tornado F0	York, 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 114 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 66 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -250 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1427 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -16 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.

000 
WFUS53 KGID 112345
TORGRI
NEC185-120015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
643 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN YORK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 642 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED FUNNELS NEAR MCCOOL            
  JUNCTION...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF YORK. THE STORM WAS
  MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...

  MCCOOL JUNCTION
  YORK
  AREAS NEAR THE INTERSTATE 80 INTERCHANGE SOUTH OF YORK

IF YOU LIVE IN SOUTHERN YORK COUNTY...STAY INSIDE AND HEAD TO YOUR
TORNADO SHELTER. 

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION. A TORNADO HAS BEEN SIGHTED.
PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN YORK COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A
BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING. AS A
LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD
WITH YOUR HANDS.

$$

LAT...LON 4072 9780 4072 9741 4092 9739 4093 9779

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MORITZ

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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.