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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Hastings, NE

June 9, 2003Howard County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2003, 9:44 PM CDT for Howard County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 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, 9:44 PM CDT (02:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2003, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Howard County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:47 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 174 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGID 100244
TORGID
NEC093-100315-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 942 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION AND POTENTIAL TORNADO OVER
  DANNEBROG...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS SEVERE STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT
  ANY TIME.

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

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

NEVER TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. IF IN A VEHICLE...LEAVE IT IMMEDIATELY
AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE
FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR HOWARD COUNTY

LAT...LON 4124 9850 4112 9868 4106 9866 4106 9828
$$

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, 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, 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.