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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Hastings, NE

April 6, 2001Phillips County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 6, 2001, 2:56 PM CDT for Phillips County, Kansas. It was in force for 49 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
Apr 6, 2001, 2:56 PM CDT (19:56 UTC)
Expired
Apr 6, 2001, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Phillips County, KS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 6, 2:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 183 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2001-04-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 2001-04-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 147 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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 061957
TORGRI
KSC147-062045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PHILLIPS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 251 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR LOGAN...OR ABOUT 16 MILES WEST OF
  PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  PRAIRIE VIEW AT 305 PM CDT
  LONG ISLAND AT 315 PM CDT
  WOODRUFF AT 320 PM CDT

A STATE TROOPER REPORTED ROTATION IN THIS STORM.
PEOPLE IN PHILLIPS 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..k.LON 3968 9974 3962 9942 3997 9909 3999 9959

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 6, 1:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips45 min
Apr 6, 2:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips48 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.