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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Hastings, NE

June 9, 2003Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2003, 9:15 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 60 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, 9:15 PM CDT (02:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2003, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Rooks County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:18 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

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 2435 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 3.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGID 100215
TORGID
KSC163-100315-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ROOKS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 913 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH OF DAMAR...OR ABOUT 27 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WEBSTER STATE PARK AT 930 PM CDT...
  STOCKTON AT 950 PM CDT...
  WOODSTON AT 1010 PM CDT...

PEOPLE IN CENTRAL ROOKS COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A
BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

TORNADOES AT NIGHT ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL YOU
SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO. IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO TAKE APPROPRIATE
ACTION. SEEK SHELTER NOW.

LAT...LON 3951 9967 3933 9968 3923 9905 3951 9906
$$
FAY
NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 8:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Rooks	44 min
Jun 9, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	56 min
Jun 9, 10:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Rooks	45 min
Jun 9, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Smith	52 min
Jun 9, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	51 min
Jun 9, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	30 min

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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.