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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Hastings, NE

June 12, 2002Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2002, 3:45 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. 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
Jun 12, 2002, 3:45 PM CDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2002, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Rooks County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 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 nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 185 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2002-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 741 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2002-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 320 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
741 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-174 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
729 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
320 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
341 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGID 122045
TORGRI
KSC163-122130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
344 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ROOKS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT

* AT 340 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES   
  NORTHWEST OF PLAINVILLE...OR ABOUT 32 MILES SOUTH OF 
  PHILLIPSBURG...  MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  PLAINVILL AT 350 PM CDT
  STOCKTON AT 355 PM CDT
  CODELL AT 400 PM CDT
  WOODSTON AT 415 PM CDT

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION. A TORNADO HAS BEEN SIGHTED.
PEOPLE IN ROOKS COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT
OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

LAT...LON 3954 9961 3914 9958 3916 9907 3955 9907

&

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 6:00 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDMitchell30 min
Jun 12, 6:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell52 min
Jun 12, 1:16 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDPhillips, Rooks44 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.