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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Hastings, NE

June 5, 2001Mitchell County, Osborne County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2001, 1:20 AM CDT for Mitchell County, Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 40 min. 2 reports 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 5, 2001, 1:20 AM CDT (06:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2001, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:21 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 5, 1:45 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Glen Elder, KS
Jun 5, 2:03 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Beloit, KS

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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 216 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -662 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1130 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 194 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.

000 
WFUS53 KGID 050621
TORGRI

KSC123-141-050700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
120 AM CDT TUE JUN 5 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 200 AM CDT

* AT 119 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF TIPTON...OR ABOUT 48 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  TIPTON AT 125 AM CDT
  CAWKER CITY AT 140 AM CDT
  GLEN ELDER AT 145 AM CDT

PEOPLE IN NORTHWESTERN MITCHELL AND EASTERN OSBORNE COUNTIES SHOULD
TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR.

$$

LAT...LON 3938 9874 3922 9864 3933 9843 3939 9822
          3955 9806 3954 9843

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	45 min
Jun 5, 12:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	45 min
Jun 5, 2:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell	15 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.