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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Hastings, NE

June 9, 2003Greeley County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2003, 8:49 PM CDT for Greeley County, Nebraska. It was in force for 41 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 9, 2003, 8:49 PM CDT (01:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2003, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Greeley County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this tornado warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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 9, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 301 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3407 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

281 
WFUS53 KGID 100149
TORGID
NEC077-100230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
848 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GREELEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 847 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION AND POTENTIAL TORNADO OVER
  SCOTIA...OR ABOUT 39 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND...MOVING EAST
  AT 15 MPH. THIS SEVERE STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND
  POTENTIAL TORNADO INCLUDE...
  GREELEY...

PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN GREELEY 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH PREVIOUSLY ISSUED 
FOR GREELEY COUNTY

LAT...LON 4154 9874 4141 9873 4143 9827 4156 9833
$$
NNNN

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jun 9, 2:24 PM CDT, 6 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 2:24 PM CDT, 6 hours 25 minutes before

SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
224 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2003

TSTMS TONIGHT AND INTERMITTENT CHCS THRU THE WEEK ARE THE MAIN CONCERNS

18Z SFC ANALYSIS PLACED SFC LOW IN THE NEB PANHANDLE...WITH SFC
TROF/DRYLINE EXTENDING SOUTH THRU SW NEB INTO FAR WESTERN KS.  SFC
MOISTURE AXIS OF LOW/MID 60S EXTENDED NORTH THRU OKLAHOMA THRU OUR
CWA.  SFC WARM FRONT WAS LOCATED ON THE NORTHERN PERIPHERY OF THE
CWA AND EXTENDED SOUTHEAST TOWARD OMAHA.  SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS A
FEW CU HAVE DEVELOPED IN NORTHERN CWA LAST COUPLE OF HOURS WITH JUST
SOME ISOLATED -SHRA ATTM.  18Z SOUNDING FROM LBF INDICATES WARM H7
TEMPS NEAR 11C AND LAPS DATA ALSO INDICATES STRONGER CAP ACROSS
WESTERN AND SOUTHWEST ZONES.

EXPECT INITIAL TSTM DEVELOPMENT ACROSS NORTHERN CWA THIS AFTN IN
VCNTY OF WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY...THEN MORE WIDESPREAD TSTM
DEVELOPMENT AFT 00Z THIS EVENING AS COOL FRONT APPROACHES AND
CROSSES CWA ROUGHLY BTWN 03-12Z.  LAPS DATA INDICATES A QUITE
UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE WITH SFC BASED CAPES 2500-3500J/KG ATTM ALTHOUGH
AFOREMENTIONED CAP STILL STRONG IN SOUTH AND WEST.  SUPERCELL
DEVELOPMENT POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHERN ZONES EARLY THIS EVENING THEN
LINEAR CONVECTION ALONG FRONTAL BOUNDARY TONIGHT.  EXPECT TSTMS MORE
WIDESPREAD TONIGHT WITH FROPA AND INCREASING LLVL JET.

TSTM TO END BY 12Z AS FRONT EXITS THE CWA...AND BOTH SFC AND H85
FRONT EXIT CWA TUESDAY SO ANY ADDITIONAL CONVECTION ALONG BOUNDARY
SHLD BE SOUTHEAST OF CWA.

MODELS LESS IMPRESSIVE WITH CONVECTION IN UPSLOPE FLOW ACROSS THE
HIGH PLAINS TUESDAY NIGHT...WHICH MAY REACH WESTERN CWA AFT
MIDNIGHT.  HAVE MAINTAINED CHCS IN WESTERN COUNTIES ONLY.  TSTMS
CHCS REENTER FCST WED AFTN/EVE WITH APPROACH OF MID LEVEL WAVE.
PATTERN REMAINS ACTIVE THRU SAT WITH NO SIGNIFICANT CHGS MADE THURS
THRU SAT.  DRY CONDITIONS FCST SUNDAY AND MONDAY WITH RIDGING AHEAD
OF WEST COAST TROF.

.GID...NONE.

FAY

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 9, 5:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before

KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-101200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
514 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND
PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO FORM ALONG THE DRY LINE
OVER WESTERN NEBRASKA AND NORTHWESTERN KANSAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST THROUGHOUT THIS EVENING AND
TONIGHT. THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS ALONG AND WEST
OF A SAINT PAUL TO GRAND ISLAND TO MINDEN TO STOCKTON KANSAS LINE
THROUGH 7 PM. EXPECT HAIL IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER AND
ISOLATED TORNADOES WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. ALSO...WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 70 MPH ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.

THE THUNDERSTORM AREA WILL SHIFT EAST AND AREAS ALONG AND EAST OF
HIGHWAY 281 SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SEVERE WEATHER AFTER 7 PM. THE
POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL START TO DECREASE TOWARD MIDNIGHT
TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE TUESDAY NIGHT AND AGAIN FROM
WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED OVER ALL OF CENTRAL AND
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FOR THIS EVENING
AND TONIGHT.

16

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 7:49 PM CDT, 1 hour before

LSR GRI

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT : PRACTICE PRODUCT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
0749 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0740 PM    3 NE COMSTOCK             NE   TORNADO
06/09/03   VALLEY

Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:07 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

LSR GRI

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT : PRACTICE PRODUCT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
807 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0801 PM    2 E COMSTOCK              NE   TORNADO
06/09/03   VALLEY                         TORNADO IS SURROUNDED BY
                                          RAIN

Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:22 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

LSR GRI

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT : PRACTICE PRODUCT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
0822 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0822 PM    1 W ARCADIA               NE   TORNADO
06/09/03   VALLEY

NWUS53 KGID 100123 RRA
LSRGID

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
0822 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0822 PM    1 W ARCADIA               NE   TORNADO
06/09/03   VALLEY

Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:22 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
0822 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0822 PM    1 W ARCADIA               NE   TORNADO
06/09/03   VALLEY

Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:34 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT : PRACTICE PRODUCT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
0834 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0830 PM    N ORD                     NE   60 MPH WIND GUST
06/09/03   VALLEY

Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:48 PM CDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
848 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0845 PM    SCOTIA                    NE   0.75 IN HAIL
06/09/03   GREELEY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Valley	51 min
Jun 9, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Valley	47 min
Jun 9, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley, Howard	60 min
Jun 9, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Sherman	65 min
Jun 9, 8:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Greeley	36 min
Jun 9, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard	62 min
Jun 9, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nance	67 min
Jun 9, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Merrick	52 min
Jun 9, 9:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Howard	31 min
Jun 9, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk	52 min
Jun 9, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton	64 min
Jun 9, 10:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	York	53 min
Jun 9, 11:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	York	30 min
Jun 9, 11:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Thayer	51 min
Jun 10, 12:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Thayer	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.