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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Hastings, NE

May 26, 2002Howard County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2002, 6:47 PM CDT for Howard County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2002, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Howard County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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
May 26, 6:58 PM CDT	Tornado F0	St Paul, NE	Brief tornado in open field

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
May 26, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 172 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -560 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1662 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KGID 262347
TORGRI
NEC093-270015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
647 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HOWARD COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 646 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF FARWELL...OR ABOUT 22 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  DANNEBROG AT 700 PM CDT
  ST. PAUL AT 705 PM CDT
  CUSHING AT 715 PM CDT
  ST. LIBORY AT 725 PM CDT

PEOPLE IN HOWARD COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT
OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

LAT...LON 4139 9874 4106 9869 4106 9829 4138 9831

NNNN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Sherman, Valley	59 min
May 26, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Webster	53 min
May 26, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley	60 min
May 26, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard	59 min
May 26, 6:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Buffalo, Sherman	26 min
May 26, 6:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Hall	42 min
May 26, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	55 min
May 26, 6:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Franklin	63 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.