Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 11, 2001, 1:11 AM CDT for Webster County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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 11, 2001, 1:11 AM CDT (06:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2001, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Webster County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 11, 1:12 AM CDT | Tornado F0 | Red Cloud Arpt, NE | Brief tornado that damaged some irrigation pipe, outbuilding and trees. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 904 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGID 110612 TORGRI NEC181-110700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 111 AM CDT WED APR 11 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEBSTER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 200 AM CDT * AT 104 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTH OF INAVALE...OR ABOUT 41 MILES SOUTH OF HASTINGS...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... RED CLOUD AT 120 AM CDT COWLES AT 120 AM CDT BLUE HILL AT 135 AM CDT PEOPLE IN WEBSTER COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...LEAVE IT IMMEDIATELY AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. $$ NNNN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Apr 10, 1:45 PM CDT, 11 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 1:45 PM CDT, 11 hours 26 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 145 PM CDT TUE APR 10 2001 ...TSRA POTENTIAL THE NEXT 24 HRS IS THE MAIN CONCERN... SMALL...BUT RELATIVELY POTENT...BATCH OF TSRAS PRODUCED SVR WX ACROSS THE MIDDLE OF CWA THIS MORNING. THIS CLUSTER EFFECTIVELY PUSHED INVERTED SFC TROF SOUTH TO NEAR THE NEB/KS BORDER...AT LEAST IN OUR CWA. FURTHER SOUTH...WARM FRONT IS LIFTING THRU CNTRL KS W/ M60 DWPTS AS FAR NORTH AS TOP/SLN. PLENTY OF TSRA ACTIVITY IN WARM SECTOR IN ERN KS...W/ WEAKER RETURNS INTO OUR 6 NC CNTYS. AS WARM LIFTS INTO INVERTED TROF...EXPECT TSRAS TO BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD LATE THIS AFTN INTO EVENING. THE BEST POTENTIAL FOR SVR WX WILL BE OVER NC KS...BUT WILL ALSO WORK NORTH THRU NEB CNTYS AS STRONG OVERRUNNING OF COOL SFC AIR TAKES PLACE TONIGHT W/ THE APPROACH OF POTENT UPPER LVL SYS CURRENTLY INDICATED CLEARING ON WV IN AZ. EVENTUALLY EXPECT COOL LLVL AIR TO BE DISPLACED NORTH AS WELL OVER MOST OF CWA. WILL FOLLOW ETA W/ ITS SLIGHTLY BETTER HANDING OF LLVL MOISTURE INFLUX W/ THE CAVIOT THAT IT DID NOT ANTICIPATE THE SWRD PUSH OF SFC TROF BY AM TSRAS. REALLY...FCST PLAYS OUT ABOUT THE SAME USING ALL THE MDLS W/ BASIC SCENARIO OF TSRAS INCREASING IN COVERAGE THRU NC KS THIS AFTN & SPREADING THRU NEB CNTYS THIS EVENING...SOME DRY SLOTTING OVERNIGHT... THEN THE UPPER LO LIFTS NE OVER CWA TOMR...W/ POTENTIAL FOR SVR WX... INCLUDING TORNADOS INTO EARLY AFTN...WHEN SYS PASSES NE AND A STRONG W TO NW WIND DRIES THINGS OUT. WHEN ALL THINGS ARE SAID AND DONE...ONLY NEED TO TWEEK CURRENT FCST. WILL HAVE TO REWORD TEMPS TONIGHT AS 40S IN PLACE OVER MUCH OF NRN/CNTRL CWA WILL BE REPLACED BY 50S TONIGHT. WILL UP TEMPS TOMR AS WELL...ESP SE 1/2 OF CWA BASED ON PROGGED TRACK OF SFC LO AND SOUTH WINDS FCST THRU EARLY AFTN. AS FOR EXTENDED...WONT PLAY W/ MUCH. AS PER PMDEPD...SOME DIFFICULTY W/ NEXT WAVE THAT DROPS IN BEHIND CURRENT SYS. I AM INCLINED TO LEAVE FCST DRY. I EXPECT 2ND SYS TO HAVE ALOT OF TROUBLE MAINTAINING ITSELF AS IT WORKS EAST INTO CONFLUENT FLOW LEFT IN BEHIND CURRENT BIG STORM. OTHERWISE...A TREND TOWARD WARMER WX BY WEEKEND AFTER COOLER READINGS INVADE LATE WED INTO THU IN WAKE OF AZ UPPER LO. .GID...NONE. GURNEY
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 10, 8:37 PM CDT, 4 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
837 PM CDT TUE APR 10 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
R
0818 PM ROCKVILLE NE .75 INCH HAIL
04/10/01 SHERMAN
0830 PM 3 WNW FARWELL NE 1 INCH HAIL
04/10/01 HOWARDLocal storm report, Apr 11, 12:03 AM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1203 AM CDT WED APR 11 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1145 PM PALCO KS 1.75 INCH HAIL
04/10/01 ROOKS
1145 PM 3 S PLAINVILLE KS WIND DAMAGE
04/10/01 ROOKS
1145 PM PLAINVILLE KS 75 MPH TSTM GUST
04/10/01 ROOKSLocal storm report, Apr 11, 12:31 AM CDT, 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1231 AM CDT WED APR 11 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1218 AM 6 W ALTON KS 80 MPH TSTM GUST
04/11/01 OSBORNE
1220 AM 5 W PHILLIPSBURG KS 1 INCH HAIL
04/11/01 PHILLIPSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman | 48 min |
| Apr 10, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Howard | 38 min |
| Apr 10, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley, Howard, Nance | 48 min |
| Apr 11, 12:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick | 46 min |
| Apr 11, 12:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Webster | 39 min |
| Apr 11, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Polk | 52 min |
| Apr 11, 1:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 47 min |
| Apr 11, 1:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 31 min |
| Apr 11, 1:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Thayer | 59 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.