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Tornado Warning 46, NWS Hastings, NE

September 10, 2003Osborne County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Sep 10, 2003, 8:21 PM CDT for Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 39 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, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired: Sep 10, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Osborne County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:23 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, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 1765 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1212 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.7
Supercell composite: 9.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGID 110121
TORGID
KSC141-110200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 818 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 24 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOWNS...OR ABOUT 48 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  DOWNS AT 845 PM CDT...

PEOPLE IN OSBORNE 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 3923 9890 3940 9869 3959 9849 3929 9850
          3913 9877
$$
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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, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell	66 min
Sep 10, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell	43 min
Sep 10, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell	60 min
Sep 10, 9:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Mitchell	6 hr
Sep 10, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell	42 min
Sep 10, 11:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Osborne	6 hr

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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.