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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Hastings, NE

June 12, 2002Kearney County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2002, 8:42 PM CDT for Kearney County, Nebraska. It was in force for 48 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 12, 2002, 8:42 PM CDT (01:42 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2002, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 48 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), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:41 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 12, 8:45 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Minden, NE
Jun 12, 9:05 PM CDT	Hail 4.5	Minden, 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 12, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 530 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2259 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGID 130142
TORGRI
NEC099-130230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 841 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 12 MILES NORTH OF MINDEN...OR ABOUT 4 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF KEARNEY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  AXTELL AT 850 PM CDT
  MINDEN AT 855 PM CDT
  HEARTWELL AT 900 PM CDT
  NORMAN AT 905 PM CDT

PEOPLE IN KEARNEY 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.

THIS REPLACES THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR KEARNEY 
COUNTY.

LAT...LON 4064 9915 4035 9915 4037 9876 4065 9874

NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	64 min
Jun 12, 8:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Buffalo	61 min
Jun 12, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Kearney	56 min
Jun 12, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Webster	54 min
Jun 12, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	24 min
Jun 12, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls	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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.