Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 37, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2003, 10:04 PM CDT for Dawson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 41 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, 10:04 PM CDT (03:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2003, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dawson County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:05 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 23, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 4886 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1084 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 351 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 7.9
- Supercell composite
- 32.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGID 240304 TORGID NEC047-240345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1004 PM CDT MON JUN 23 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DAWSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1045 PM CDT * AT 1000 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OVERTON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEXINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... OVERTON AT 1010 PM CDT... EDDYVILLE AT 1035 PM CDT... SUMNER AT 1040 PM CDT... PEOPLE IN DAWSON 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 4103 10015 4071 10020 4069 9944 4104 9944 $$ NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 62 min |
| Jun 23, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper | 65 min |
| Jun 23, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton, Polk | 64 min |
| Jun 23, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 78 min |
| Jun 23, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 82 min |
| Jun 23, 9:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 66 min |
| Jun 23, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper | 29 min |
| Jun 23, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman | 72 min |
| Jun 23, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phelps | 44 min |
| Jun 23, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 23 min |
| Jun 23, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 48 min |
| Jun 23, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Valley | 62 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.