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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Hastings, NE

May 26, 2002Buffalo County, Sherman County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2002, 6:34 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Sherman County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 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: May 26, 2002, 6:34 PM CDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2002, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Buffalo County, NE, Sherman County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 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
May 26, 6:37 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52 E	Rockville, 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
May 26, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
May 26, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -560 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1662 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGID 262334
TORGRI
NEC019-163-270000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN SHERMAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  BUFFALO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 631 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF HAZARD...OR ABOUT 26 MILES NORTH
  OF KEARNEY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  PLEASANTON AT 640 PM CDT
  RIVERDALE AT 645 PM CDT
  RAVENNA AT 655 PM CDT
  ROCKVILLE AT 700 PM CDT

PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN SHERMAN AND BUFFALO COUNTIES SHOULD TAKE SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

LAT...LON 4072 9942 4073 9878 4126 9877 4127 9915

NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Sherman, Valley	59 min
May 26, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Webster	53 min
May 26, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley	60 min
May 26, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard	59 min
May 26, 6:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Howard	28 min
May 26, 6:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Hall	42 min
May 26, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	55 min
May 26, 6:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Franklin	63 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.