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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Hastings, NE

April 6, 2001Buffalo County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 6, 2001, 2:53 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Nebraska. It was in force for 52 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: Apr 6, 2001, 2:53 PM CDT (19:53 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 2001, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Buffalo County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 6, 3:05 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Kearney, NE
Apr 6, 3:50 PM CDT	Hail 1	Ravenna, 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 nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 517 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 93 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 147 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 237 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 061954
TORGRI
NEC019-062045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
253 PM CDT FRI APR 6 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BUFFALO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 251 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 9 MILES EAST OF RIVERDALE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF KEARNEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  POOLE AT 300 PM CDT
  RAVENNA AT 310 PM CDT

PEOPLE IN BUFFALO 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.

$$

LAT...LON 4068 9921 4068 9875 4102 9873 4102 9929

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan	45 min
Apr 6, 2:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan	26 min
Apr 6, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phelps	39 min
Apr 6, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan	48 min
Apr 6, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Kearney	42 min
Apr 6, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phelps	46 min
Apr 6, 3:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard, Sherman	42 min
Apr 6, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan	49 min
Apr 6, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney	46 min
Apr 6, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	45 min
Apr 6, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley	42 min
Apr 6, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard, Sherman	42 min
Apr 6, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley	32 min
Apr 6, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard, Sherman	41 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.