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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Hastings, NE

June 9, 2003Greeley County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2003, 8:54 PM CDT for Greeley County, Nebraska. It was in force for 36 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, 8:54 PM CDT (01:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2003, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 36 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 01:58 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 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, 1.9 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.

503 
WFUS53 KGID 100154 CCA
TORGID
NEC077-100230-

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

CORRECTED REPLACING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING RATHER THAN WATCH

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 WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR 
GREELEY COUNTY.

LAT...LON 4154 9874 4141 9873 4143 9827 4156 9833
$$
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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, 8:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Greeley	41 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

Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 2003 Every tornado warning in 2003 Tornadoes in 2003

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.