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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Hastings, NE

June 23, 2003Phillips County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2003, 1:09 AM CDT for Phillips County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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, 1:09 AM CDT (06:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2003, 1:45 AM CDT
In force: 36 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), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:13 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, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGID 230609
TORGID
KSC147-230645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
108 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 145 AM CDT

* AT 103 AM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A CONFIRMED TORNADO       
  OVER NORTHEASTERN PHILLIPS COUNTY...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTHEAST    
  OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE TORNADO WAS
  REPORTED ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTH OF THE PHILLIPS AND FRANKLIN
  COUNTY LINE. 

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE...
  RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEAST PHILLIPS COUNTY

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION. A TORNADO HAS BEEN SIGHTED.
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 3985 9928 3985 9908 3999 9905 3999 9927
&
$$
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, 12:35 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Phillips	25 min
Jun 23, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	65 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.