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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Hastings, NE

June 9, 2003York County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2003, 11:00 PM CDT for York County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 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, 11:00 PM CDT (04:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2003, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County York County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 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, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 223 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -235 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2359 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 272 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGID 100400
TORGID
NEC185-100430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1059 PM CDT MON JUN 9 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  YORK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 1057 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF YORK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE...
  YORK...
  WACO...
  THAYER...

PEOPLE IN YORK 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 4105 9780 4081 9782 4071 9738 4104 9737
$$
GUYER
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, 8 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 2:24 PM CDT, 8 hours 36 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, 5 hours 46 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.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 9, 10:00 PM CDT, 1 hour before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT :
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1000 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

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

0955 PM    1 S FULLERTON             NE   0.75 IN HAIL
06/09/03   NANCE

Local storm report, Jun 9, 10:02 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT :
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1002 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

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

0958 PM    8 S ST. PAUL              NE   1.00 IN HAIL
06/09/03   HOWARD

Local storm report, Jun 9, 10:04 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT :
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1004 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

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

1002 PM    ST. LIBORY                NE   4.25 IN HAIL
06/09/03   HOWARD

Local storm report, Jun 9, 10:05 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT : SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1005 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

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

1002 PM    ST. LIBORY                NE   4.25 IN HAIL
06/09/03   HOWARD

0958 PM    8 S ST. PAUL              NE   1.00 IN HAIL
06/09/03   HOWARD

0955 PM    1 S FULLERTON             NE   0.75 IN HAIL
06/09/03   NANCE

0953 PM    10 SSE ST. PAUL           NE   0.75 IN HAIL
06/09/03   HOWARD

0932 PM    4 SW FARWELL              NE   1.25 IN HAIL
06/09/03   HOWARD

0926 PM    5 SW FARWELL              NE   1.00 IN HAIL
06/09/03   HOWARD

0919 PM    5 W ST. PAUL              NE   70 MPH WIND GUST
06/09/03   HOWARD

0914 PM    3 E ASHTON                NE   1.00 IN HAIL
06/09/03   HOWARD

0912 PM    11 W LOUP CITY            NE   0.88 IN HAIL
06/09/03   SHERMAN

0909 PM    11 W LOUP CITY            NE   0.88 IN HAIL
06/09/03   SHERMAN

Local storm report, Jun 9, 10:28 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT :
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1028 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

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

1007 PM    CHAPMAN                   NE   1.75 IN HAIL
06/09/03   MERRICK

Local storm report, Jun 9, 11:00 PM CDT, 0 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1100 PM CDT MON JUN 09 2003

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

1058 PM    BENEDICT                  NE   0.75 IN HAIL
06/09/03   YORK

KISNER

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, 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, 11:39 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.