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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2000, 8:55 PM CDT for Merrick County, Nance County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report 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, 8:55 PM CDT (01:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2000, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 9:15 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Genoa, 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 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 901 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1331 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
245 WFUS53 KGID 120156 TORGRI NEC121-125-120245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 855 PM CDT SUN JUN 11 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN NANCE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA NORTHEASTERN MERRICK COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 855 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF SILVER CREEK...OR ABOUT 24 MILES WEST OF COLUMBUS...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH. SPOTTERS ARE WATCHING A WALL CLOUD ALONG THE NANCE AND MERRICK COUNTIES LINE WEST OF SILVER CREEK AND NORTH OF CLARKS. CLARKS...SILVER CREEK...FULLERTON AND GENOA ARE INCLUDED IN THE WARNING. MOVE TO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER. PEOPLE IN EASTERN NANCE AND NORTHEASTERN MERRICK COUNTIES 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 4133 9799 4120 9782 4151 9736 4168 9759 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | York | 43 min |
| Jun 11, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | York | 37 min |
| Jun 11, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Polk | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | York | 27 min |
| Jun 11, 11:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore | 29 min |
| Jun 11, 11:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Clay | 32 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.