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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2003, 10:45 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 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, 10:45 PM CDT (03:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2003, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 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 03:47 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, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 185 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGID 100345 TORGID KSC163-100430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1045 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 1130 PM CDT * AT 1042 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER WEBSTER STATE PARK...OR ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTH OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ZURICH AT 1055 PM CDT... STOCKTON AT 1105 PM CDT... PLAINVILLE AT 1110 PM CDT... CODELL AT 1130 PM CDT... PEOPLE IN 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 3952 9959 3918 9958 3915 9906 3954 9907 $$ NNNN 16
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, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Rooks | 60 min |
| Jun 9, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 56 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 |
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.