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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Hastings, NE

May 26, 2002Harlan County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2002, 8:47 PM CDT for Harlan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 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, 8:47 PM CDT (01:47 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2002, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Harlan County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:46 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.

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
May 26, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 142 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 270147
TORGRI
NEC083-270230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 841 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION AND POTENTIAL TORNADO 4
  MILES NORTHEAST OF ORLEANS...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTH OF HOLDREGE...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS SEVERE STORM COULD PRODUCE A      
  TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND POTENTIAL TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  ORLEANS AT 850 PM CDT
  ALMA AT 855 PM CDT
  HARLAN COUNTY DAM AT 900 PM CDT

THIS TORNADO WARNING EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS WARNING UNTIL 930 PM. 
PEOPLE IN HARLAN 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 4033 9961 4000 9961 4000 9918 4034 9918

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, 7:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Kearney	45 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, 8:53 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

Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 2002 Every tornado warning in 2002 Tornadoes in 2002

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.