Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 20, 2001, 5:23 PM CDT for Osborne County, Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 52 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 20, 2001, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Osborne County, KS, Rooks County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 829 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGID 202223 TORGRI KSC141-163-202315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 523 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN OSBORNE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS EASTERN ROOKS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 518 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF WOODSTON...OR ABOUT 28 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE CODELL...NATOMA AND RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN ROOKS AND WESTERN OSBORNE COUNTY. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION. A TORNADO HAS BEEN SIGHTED. PEOPLE IN WESTERN OSBORNE AND EASTERN ROOKS COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...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. $$ & LAT...LON 3954 9886 3953 9936 3915 9934 3915 9886 NNNN
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 20, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 20, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 250 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2001 COLD FRONT AND ITS IMPLICATIONS THE FOCUS OF THIS FORECAST. FRONT WAS SLICING ITS WAY ACROSS NW CWFA AT 19Z. BROKEN LINE OF SHOWERS/STORMS FORMING ALONG FRONT. THIS LINE SHOULD FILL IN AS DAYTIME HEATING CONTINUES TO DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE AND AS BETTER MOISTURE IS ENCOUNTERED. THIS LINE WILL ADD TO FAIRLY HEAVY RAIN AMOUNTS SCATTERED ACROSS SE CWFA. WILL BASE ZONE GROUPS ON TIMING OF THIS PCPN THIS EVENING. COULD NOT RULE OUT A SEVERE STORM PRODUCING HAIL BUT WILL NOT MENTION IN TEXT OF ZONES TONIGHT. NORTHWEST WINDS BEHIND THE FRONT WILL GUST TO AROUND 40 MPH THIS EVENING BUT DOUBT IF WIND ADVISORY CRITERION WILL BE REACHED. AS UPPER TROUGH AXIS PASSES OVERNIGHT...QUESTION AS TO WHETHER ADDITIONAL PCPN...NOW IN NW NEBR/SW SDAK/ERN WY AREA...WILL AFFECT CWFA. WHILE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE GETS SCOURED OUT...UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS SHOULD BE EFFICIENT AT SQUEEZING OUT WHAT IS LEFT OVER. BEST OVERALL SETUP LOOKS TO BE OVER SOUTHWEST CWFA. WORDING WILL BE TRICKY FOR TIMING OF PCPN HOWEVER. HAVE REINTRODUCED SLGT CHC OF AFTERNOON SHOWERS MONDAY AS COLD POOL ALOFT PASSES BY. ETA FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOW A LAYER OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND STEEP LAPSE RATES. EVEN CAPES OF 100-200 J/KG ARE EVIDENT BY LATE IN THE DAY. SHOWERS/SQUALLS WILL HAVE POTENTIAL FOR WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. REST OF FORECAST PERIOD WILL REMAIN WITH DRY WORDING. MODELS HANDLING OF UPPER LOW INTO ERN US HAS COME INTO BETTER AGREEMENT... HOWEVER TIMING OF ANY IMPULSES ROTATING AROUND THE CENTER IS IN QUESTION AND MOISTURE AVAILABILITY APPEARS SUSPECT. TEMPWISE...ETA LOW LEVEL PROGS ARE WARMER AND APPEAR MORE REASONABLE THAN THE AVN/NGM. THIS FITS IN WITH RECENT RELEASE CONCERNING AVN LOW LEVEL COOL TEMP BIAS MENTIONED BY LBF IN COORDINATION CALL. THEREFORE MAV/FAN GUIDANCE THROWN OUT. EVEN THOUGH BASED ON THE NGM...WARMER FWC NUMBERS ACTUALLY MATCH ETA PROGS PRETTY WELL AND ARE PREFERRED. MORE SPECIFICALLY FOR TONIGHT...WINDS SHOULD KEEP AIR MIXED ENOUGH TO KEEP TEMPS FROM FALLING TOO FAR. .GID...NONE. DROZD
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 20, 5:02 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
502 PM CDT SUN MAY 20 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0458 PM STOCKTON KS TORNADO
05/20/01 ROOKS NUMEROUS REPORTS OF A
TORNADO NORHTHWEST OF
TOWNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 43 min |
| May 20, 4:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phillips | 24 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.