Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 34, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2003, 12:35 AM CDT for Phillips County, Kansas. It was in force for 25 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 23, 2003, 12:35 AM CDT (05:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2003, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Phillips County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:38 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, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 3917 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.3
- Supercell composite
- -2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGID 230535 TORGID KSC147-230600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1235 AM CDT MON JUN 23 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PHILLIPS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 100 AM CDT * AT 1233 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER NORTHEASTERN PHILLIPS COUNTY...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE... RURAL NORTHEASTERN PHILLIPS COUNTY PEOPLE IN NORTHEASTERN PHILLIPS 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 3984 9934 3984 9907 4000 9904 4000 9925 $$ GUYER NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 58 min |
| Jun 22, 9:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 64 min |
| Jun 22, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Smith | 60 min |
| Jun 22, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 65 min |
| Jun 22, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 63 min |
| Jun 22, 11:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Jewell | 6 hr |
| Jun 22, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 63 min |
| Jun 23, 12:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 29 min |
| Jun 23, 12:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 65 min |
| Jun 23, 1:09 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phillips | 36 min |
| Jun 23, 1:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Smith | 57 min |
| Jun 23, 1:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 64 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.