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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Hastings, NE

May 8, 2001Jewell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2001, 6:29 PM CDT for Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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: May 8, 2001, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Jewell County, KS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 8, 6:50 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Jewell, KS	Brief Touchdown

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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 231 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -229 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1384 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 203 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

619 
WFUS53 KGID 082331
TORGRI
KSC089-090000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
629 PM CDT TUE MAY 8 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN JEWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 627 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF MANKATO...OR ABOUT 30 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  JEWELL AT 635 PM CDT
  RANDALL AT 650 PM CDT

PEOPLE IN EASTERN JEWELL 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 NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE
FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.


THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 645 PM.

$$

KD

LAT...LON 3998 9796 3991 9845 3957 9814 3958 9795

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at May 8, 2:17 PM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 2:17 PM CDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
217 PM CDT TUE MAY 8 2001

MAIN FOCUS FOR THIS PACKAGE IS THE CHANCE FOR CONVECTION AND RAIN
WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY.

18Z SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS RELATIVELY WEAK PATTERN WITH TROF NEAR A VTN-
LHX LINE. 50+ DEW POINTS WERE POOLED IN A NARROW RIBBON EAST OF
THE TROF FROM SW KS INTO SC NEB. SATELLITE SHOWS CLUSTER OF HIGH
BASED CONVECTION SE NEB ACROSS NRN MO. H7 SHORT WAVE BARELY
DISCERNIBLE IN 12Z ANAL BUT INDENTIFIED BETTER ON PROFILERS APPEARS
TO BE THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF THE CONVECTION.

FORECAST THROUGH ABOUT NOON WEDNESDAY APPEARS STRAIGHT FORWARD WITH
LOW LEVEL WARM ADVECTION ON INCREASING SOUTHERLY FLOW AHEAD OF
APPROACHING FRONT/LOW. UPR FLOW REMAINS NORTHWEST WITH NO APPARENT
ADDITIONAL WAVES. SO DRY...WARMER AND WINDIER FORECAST LOOKS RIGHT.
MOS TEMPS LOOK REASONABLE IN GENERAL. MIXING FROM INCREASING WIND
OVERNIGHT SHOULD KEEP READINGS UP A BIT OVERNIGHT.

NEXT SIGNIFICANT UPPER WAVE WAS APPROACHING PACIFIC NORTHWEST WITH
12Z H5 ANALYSIS SHOWING 60M HGT FALLS. MODELS IN ACCORD TAKING THIS
WAVE ACROSS NRN STATES AND SRN CANADA...AND DAMPENING WRN STATES
RIDGE. ZONAL UPPER FLOW TO RESULT ACROSS CENTRAL PLAINS BY WED
AFTERNOON.

SURFACE REFLECTION OF THIS SYSTEM IS A FRONT FORECAST TO CROSS GID
CWA WED NIGHT. AVN IS SIGNIFICANTLY SLOWER WITH THIS SFC SYSTEM AT
36 HOURS AND ETA/NGM SOLUTIONS ON SIMILAR CASES HAVE BEEN SUPERIOR.
INCREASING INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE IN WARM SECTOR AHEAD OF FRONT
MAY LEAD TO WIDESPREAD AND SEVERE STORMS WEDNESDAY EVENING.  WILL
INCLUDE CHANCE FOR AFTERNOON CONVECTION INTO NORTHWEST GID CWA ABT
4PM WED AND SPREAD IT SOUTHEAST. POPS IN LIKELY CATEGORY ACROSS NEB
ZONES WED NIGHT...WITH 40 PCT IN KS.

ZONAL FLOW AND STALLING FRONT LEAD TO PERSISTENT CONVECTIVE EVENT
THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. ISENTROPIC LIFT OVER FRONT...DYNAMICS IN
ZONAL UPPER FLOW AND CONTINUOUS FEED OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE ALL LEAD
TOWARD A SIGNIFICANT RAIN EVENT THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY.  HIGH
POPS APPEAR THE WAY TO GO.

MRF & AVN HOLD FRONT AND ZONAL FLOW IN PLACE FRIDAY WITH NEXT WAVE
TO TURN UPPER FLOW TO THE NW AND SFC HIGH TO DRIVE FRONT INTO
SRN KS/OK BY SATURDAY MORNING. AFTER BRIEF UPPER RIDGING AND FAIR
WEATHER SATURDAY...TSTMS RETURN TO FORECAST LATE SUN THROUGH TUES.
NEXT IN SERIES OF UPPER SYSTEMS AGAIN EXPECTED TO FLATTEN THE RIDGE
AND SEND LOW/FRONT ACROSS NEB & KS PRIMARILY SUNDAY AND MONDAY.
SHOWERS MAY LINGER INTO TUESDAY.

.GID...NONE.

SCHURR

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 8, 4:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
459 PM CDT TUE MAY 08 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0450 PM    3 S NELSON                NE    .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/01   NUCKOLLS

Local storm report, May 8, 5:18 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
518 PM CDT TUE MAY 08 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0514 PM    2 W HARDY                 NE    .75 INCH HAIL
05/08/01   NUCKOLLS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	45 min
May 8, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	45 min

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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.