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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Sep 22, 2001, 7:33 PM CDT for Clay County, Nebraska. It was in force for 57 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
- Sep 22, 2001, 7:33 PM CDT (00:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2001, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 7:36 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Sutton, NE | |
| Sep 22, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado F3 | Edgar, NE | Tornado exited Clay county and entered Fillmore county. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 2845 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 946 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
306 WFUS53 KGID 230033 TORGRI NEC035-230130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 733 PM CDT SAT SEP 22 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 727 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF CLAY CENTER...OR ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF HASTINGS...MOVING EAST AT 5 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE SARONVILLE... SUTTON...ONG AND RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN CLAY COUNTY. PEOPLE IN CLAY COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. $$ GUYER LAT...LON 4063 9826 4041 9819 4035 9783 4062 9784 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore | 51 min |
| Sep 22, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | York | 42 min |
| Sep 22, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer | 57 min |
| Sep 22, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore | 50 min |
| Sep 22, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore, York | 45 min |
| Sep 22, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls, Thayer | 55 min |
| Sep 22, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay | 23 min |
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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.