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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Hastings, NE

May 8, 2001Mitchell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2001, 7:29 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 46 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 8, 2001, 7:29 PM CDT (00:29 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Mitchell County, KS

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 226 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2655 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 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.

448 
WFUS53 KGID 090030
TORGRI
KSC123-090115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 727 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES          
  SOUTHWEST OF SCOTTSVILLE...OR ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF CONCORDIA...  
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.  WEATHER SPOTTERS ALSO REPORTED A 
  TORNADO ON THE GROUND 5 MILES WEST OF SCOTTSVILLE AT 723 PM.

* TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ASHERVILLE AT 745 PM CDT
  SIMPSON AT 750 PM CDT

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION. A TORNADO HAS BEEN SIGHTED.
PEOPLE IN EASTERN MITCHELL 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.

$$

KD

&

LAT...LON 3956 9814 3925 9809 3924 9795 3954 9792

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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, 5 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 2:17 PM CDT, 5 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, 2 hours 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, 2 hours 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

Local storm report, May 8, 6:41 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

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

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

0620 PM    1 N CLAY CENTER           NE    1 INCH HAIL
05/08/01   CLAY

0625 PM    CLAY CENTER               NE    1.75 INCH HAIL
05/08/01   CLAY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.