Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 22, 2001, 7:06 PM CDT for Adams County, Nebraska. It was in force for 24 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
- Apr 22, 2001, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Adams County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 7:06 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 69 E | Hastings, NE | |
| Apr 22, 7:21 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Hastings, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 481 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 364 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 230006 TORGRI NEC001-230030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 706 PM CDT SUN APR 22 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN ADAMS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 703 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JUNIATA...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF HASTINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... JUNIATA AT 715 PM CDT PROSSER AT 720 PM CDT HASTINGS AT 725 PM CDT PEOPLE IN NORTHERN ADAMS 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. $$ FAY LAT...LON 4055 9873 4047 9835 4068 9830 4069 9861 NNNN
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.