Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 32, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 23, 2001, 4:43 PM CDT for Harlan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 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
- Aug 23, 2001, 4:43 PM CDT (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2001, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harlan County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 5:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Alma, NE | |
| Aug 23, 5:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 E | Orleans, 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 2466 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 665 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
316 WFUS53 KGID 232143 TORGRI NEC083-232215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 443 PM CDT THU AUG 23 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN HARLAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 441 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER NORTHWESTERN HARLAN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOLDREGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE RURAL NORTHWESTERN HARLAN COUNTY. PEOPLE IN NORTHWESTERN HARLAN COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE COUNTY. 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. $$ NNNN MORITZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper | 47 min |
| Aug 23, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Harlan, Phelps | 41 min |
| Aug 23, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper | 39 min |
| Aug 23, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan | 47 min |
| Aug 23, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin | 61 min |
| Aug 23, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Webster | 66 min |
| Aug 23, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams | 53 min |
| Aug 23, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 61 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.