Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 2003, 6:26 PM CDT for Hamilton County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 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 22, 2003, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hamilton County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 22, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 1248 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGID 222326 TORGID NEC081-230030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 625 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HAMILTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 623 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER GILTNER...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRAND ISLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... AURORA AT 650 PM CDT... HAMPTON AT 700 PM CDT... MARQUETTE AT 710 PM CDT... HORDVILLE AT 730 PM CDT... THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT. PEOPLE IN HAMILTON 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. LAT...LON 4076 9831 4065 9813 4099 9771 4115 9797 $$ 07
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Thayer | 51 min |
| Jun 22, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall | 25 min |
| Jun 22, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick | 52 min |
| Jun 22, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Hamilton | 59 min |
| Jun 22, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nance | 54 min |
| Jun 22, 6:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Thayer | 39 min |
| Jun 22, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick | 63 min |
| Jun 22, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Nuckolls, Thayer | 52 min |
| Jun 22, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Merrick | 50 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.