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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Oct 9, 2001, 5:11 PM CDT for Merrick County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 min. 3 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
- Oct 9, 2001, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 9, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Merrick County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Chapman, NE | Tornado entered Merrick County from Hamilton County. |
| Oct 9, 5:17 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Central City, NE | Tornado crossed from Merrick County into Nance County. |
| Oct 9, 5:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Central City, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 854 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
223 WFUS53 KGID 092213 TORGRI NEC121-092300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 511 PM CDT TUE OCT 9 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MERRICK COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 504 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF CHAPMAN...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF GRAND ISLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTH OF ARCHER OR 23 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRAND ISLAND...ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ARCHER AT 525 PM CDT CENTRAL CITY AT 530 PM CDT PALMER AT 535 PM CDT CLARKS AT 555 PM CDT PEOPLE IN MERRICK 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. THIS WARNING IS AN UPGRADE TO THE SEVERE THUNDESTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT FOR MERRICK COUNTY. $$ LAT...LON 4093 9825 4104 9809 4130 9769 4127 9826 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley, Howard | 49 min |
| Oct 9, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton | 43 min |
| Oct 9, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick | 49 min |
| Oct 9, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Greeley | 33 min |
| Oct 9, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls, Webster | 59 min |
| Oct 9, 5:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton | 27 min |
| Oct 9, 5:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 39 min |
| Oct 9, 5:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Nance | 39 min |
| Oct 9, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay | 48 min |
| Oct 9, 5:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton | 42 min |
| Oct 9, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Polk | 51 min |
| Oct 9, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nance | 46 min |
| Oct 9, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Merrick | 45 min |
| Oct 9, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls, Webster | 53 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.