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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Goodland, KS

July 5, 2000Hitchcock County, Nebraska

NWS Goodland, KS issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 2000, 7:14 PM CDT for Hitchcock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 61 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: Jul 5, 2000, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Whole counties

County Hitchcock County, NE

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 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
Jul 5, 7:40 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Stratton, 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 5, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 2126 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 8.8

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The text

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

615 
WFUS53 KGLD 060014
TORGLD
NEC087-060115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS
714 PM CDT WED JUL 5 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GOODLAND HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HITCHCOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 713 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STRATTON NE...OR
  ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF BENKELMAN...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  STRATTON NE AROUND 735 PM CDT
  TRENTON AROUND 815 PM CDT

VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE ALSO EXPECTED
WITH THIS STORM.

IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...DO NOT WATCH FOR THE TORNADO SEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...FIND
A CULVERT...DITCH...OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR
HANDS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT 
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST COLORADO AND NORTHWEST KANSAS AND 
SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA.

$$

LAT...LON 4022 10106 4019 10131 4001 10132 4000 10093
          4022 10095

The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Hitchcock	62 min
Jul 5, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Red Willow	49 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.