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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Hastings, NE

September 10, 2003Smith County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Sep 10, 2003, 5:46 PM CDT for Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 44 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: Sep 10, 2003, 5:46 PM CDT (22:46 UTC)
Expired: Sep 10, 2003, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Smith County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 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
Sep 10, 1:55 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 215 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: 172 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 928 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGID 102246
TORGID
KSC183-102330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
546 PM CDT WED SEP 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SMITH COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 544 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER CEDAR...OR ABOUT 23 MILES EAST OF
  PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ATHOL AT 555 PM CDT...
  SMITH CENTER AT 610 PM CDT...
  BELLAIRE AT 620 PM CDT...
  LEBANON AT 630 PM CDT...

PEOPLE IN SMITH 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 3967 9906 3955 9889 3985 9843 4003 9866
$$
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 10, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	47 min
Sep 10, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Rooks	32 min
Sep 10, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips	54 min
Sep 10, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Smith	63 min
Sep 10, 5:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Phillips	48 min
Sep 10, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	64 min
Sep 10, 6:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	52 min
Sep 10, 6:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	27 min
Sep 10, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	33 min
Sep 10, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	61 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.