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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Hastings, NE

June 10, 2002Hamilton County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2002, 8:02 PM CDT for Hamilton County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 min. 2 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: Jun 10, 2002, 8:02 PM CDT (01:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2002, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hamilton County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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
Jun 10, 8:40 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Aurora, NE
Jun 10, 8:45 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Giltner, 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
Jun 10, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 4189 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1042 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.7
Supercell composite: 13.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGID 110102
TORGRI
NEC081-110145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
801 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 800 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR AURORA...OR ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF 
  GRAND ISLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HAMPTON AT 815 PM CDT
  MARQUETTE AT 820 PM CDT
  HORDVILLE AT 840 PM CDT

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

LAT...LON 4089 9825 4074 9826 4072 9785 4111 9786

NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton, Merrick	58 min
Jun 10, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall	38 min
Jun 10, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Webster	39 min
Jun 10, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls	55 min
Jun 10, 8:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk, York	58 min
Jun 10, 8:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Hamilton	47 min
Jun 10, 9:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nance	58 min
Jun 10, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk, York	45 min
Jun 10, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay	42 min
Jun 10, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton	53 min
Jun 10, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Merrick	61 min
Jun 10, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard	63 min
Jun 10, 10:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nance	60 min
Jun 11, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nance	65 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.