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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Hastings, NE

May 26, 2002Franklin County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2002, 6:57 PM CDT for Franklin County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 min. 3 reports 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, 6:57 PM CDT (23:57 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Franklin County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 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, 7:15 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Naponee, NE	A small tornado briefly touched down east of Naponee
May 26, 7:38 PM CDT	Hail 4	Franklin, NE
May 26, 8:00 PM CDT	Hail 1	Riverton, 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
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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 170 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 262357
TORGRI
NEC061-270100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 656 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO NEAR NAPONEE...OR ABOUT 26 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BLOOMINGTON AT 705 PM CDT
  FRANKLIN AT 720 PM CDT
  RIVERTON AT 750 PM CDT

PEOPLE IN FRANKLIN 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.

LAT...LON 4029 9917 4001 9916 4004 9875 4031 9878

NNNN

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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, 6:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Howard	28 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

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.