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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Hastings, NE

July 24, 2002Buffalo County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 24, 2002, 9:09 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Nebraska. It was in force for 66 min. 1 report 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: Jul 24, 2002, 9:09 PM CDT (02:09 UTC)
Expired: Jul 24, 2002, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Buffalo County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 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
Jul 24, 10:00 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Shelton, 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 nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 793 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3368 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 104 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.

419 
WFUS53 KGID 250209
TORGRI
NEC019-250315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
908 PM CDT WED JUL 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN BUFFALO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 907 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 3 MILES
  NORTH OF RAVENNA...OR ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF GRAND ISLAND...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE RAVENNA...POOLE 
AND SHELTON.

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION. A TORNADO HAS BEEN SIGHTED.
PEOPLE IN EASTERN BUFFALO 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.

LAT...LON 4103 9874 4105 9835 4106 9873 4105 9873
          4104 9903 4072 9901 4071 9873

&

GUYER

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 24, 7:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Valley	39 min
Jul 24, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley	55 min
Jul 24, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Sherman	64 min
Jul 24, 9:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Hall, Howard	70 min
Jul 24, 10:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Adams, Kearney	56 min
Jul 24, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams	44 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.