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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Hastings, NE

May 26, 2002Kearney County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2002, 7:30 PM CDT for Kearney County, Nebraska. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2002, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2002, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kearney County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 1192 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1891 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGID 270030
TORGRI
NEC099-270115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 726 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION AND POTENTIAL TORNADO 9
  MILES NORTH OF AXTELL...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTH OF KEARNEY...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS SEVERE STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT
  ANY TIME.

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND POTENTIAL TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  AXTELL AT 735 PM CDT
  MINDEN AT 750 PM CDT
  HEARTWELL AT 805 PM CDT
  NORMAN AT 810 PM CDT

THIS REPLACES THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING. 

PEOPLE IN KEARNEY 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.

NEVER TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. IF IN A VEHICLE...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.

LAT...LON 4064 9917 4038 9916 4037 9874 4070 9876

NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 7:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	44 min
May 26, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Merrick, Nance	51 min
May 26, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney	53 min
May 26, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Furnas	65 min
May 26, 7:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Hamilton	63 min
May 26, 7:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Polk, York	67 min
May 26, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Hall	64 min
May 26, 7:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Harlan, Phelps	61 min
May 26, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Franklin	64 min
May 26, 8:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Kearney	44 min
May 26, 8:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Harlan	43 min
May 26, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls	67 min
May 26, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	44 min
May 26, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.