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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Hastings, NE

June 22, 2003Nuckolls County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 2003, 9:35 PM CDT for Nuckolls County, Nebraska. It was in force for 40 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, 9:35 PM CDT (02:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2003, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Nuckolls County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:38 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 22, 8:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 2534 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1045 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 222 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGID 230235
TORGID
NEC129-230315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
935 PM CDT SUN JUN 22 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NUCKOLLS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 933 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR RUSKIN
  OR ABOUT 39 MILES NORTH OF CONCORDIA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL SOUTHEASTERN NUCKOLLS COUNTY AT 940 PM CDT

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION. A TORNADO HAS BEEN SIGHTED.
PEOPLE IN SOUTHEASTERN NUCKOLLS COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING. AS A
LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD
WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 4000 9786 4012 9800 4027 9782
&
$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 7:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	York	54 min
Jun 22, 7:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Hamilton	32 min
Jun 22, 7:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore	59 min
Jun 22, 7:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Thayer	62 min
Jun 22, 7:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Thayer	6 hr
Jun 22, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk	61 min
Jun 22, 8:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Hamilton	44 min
Jun 22, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard	57 min
Jun 22, 8:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	York	59 min
Jun 22, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley	53 min
Jun 22, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore, Nuckolls	63 min
Jun 22, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams	42 min
Jun 22, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Thayer	64 min
Jun 22, 8:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nance	55 min
Jun 22, 9:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Nance	59 min
Jun 22, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton	56 min
Jun 22, 9:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Fillmore	6 hr
Jun 22, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley, Valley	53 min
Jun 22, 9:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Thayer	64 min
Jun 22, 9:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls	59 min
Jun 22, 9:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Merrick	51 min
Jun 22, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	York	55 min
Jun 22, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton	65 min
Jun 22, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley	64 min
Jun 22, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls	57 min
Jun 22, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Thayer	62 min
Jun 22, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore	60 min
Jun 22, 11:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls	46 min
Jun 22, 11:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Nuckolls	6 hr
Jun 23, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan	64 min
Jun 23, 12:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Webster	59 min
Jun 23, 1:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Webster	45 min
Jun 23, 1:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	55 min
Jun 23, 1:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Thayer	4 hr
Jun 23, 1:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls	54 min
Jun 23, 1:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phelps	61 min
Jun 23, 2:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney	63 min
Jun 23, 2:33 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Webster	6 hr
Jun 23, 2:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams	60 min
Jun 23, 3:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phelps	43 min
Jun 23, 3:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	61 min
Jun 23, 3:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams	31 min
Jun 23, 5:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Valley	63 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.