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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Hastings, NE

April 29, 2003Franklin County, Webster County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 2003, 8:39 PM CDT for Franklin County, Webster County, Nebraska. It was in force for 66 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: Apr 29, 2003, 8:39 PM CDT (01:39 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2003, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Franklin County, NE, Webster County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:43 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
Apr 29, 3:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
Apr 29, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 92 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

212 
WFUS53 KGID 300139
TORGID
NEC061-181-300245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
839 PM CDT TUE APR 29 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  WEBSTER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 833 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION AND POTENTIAL TORNADO 4
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF FRANKLIN...OR ABOUT 32 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THIS SEVERE STORM COULD
  PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND POTENTIAL TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RIVERTON AT 850 PM CDT
  INAVALE AT 905 PM CDT
  RED CLOUD AT 920 PM CDT
  COWLES AT 935 PM CDT
  ROSEMONT AT 945 PM CDT

PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN FRANKLIN AND WEBSTER COUNTIES 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 4013 9908 3997 9896 4001 9828 4033 9835
$$
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 29, 7:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nance	47 min
Apr 29, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nance	48 min
Apr 29, 8:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Webster	64 min
Apr 29, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley	49 min
Apr 29, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Webster	47 min
Apr 29, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Webster	64 min
Apr 29, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	40 min
Apr 29, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Thayer	66 min
Apr 29, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	48 min
Apr 29, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Thayer	62 min
Apr 30, 12:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall, Howard, Sherman	65 min
Apr 30, 12:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	53 min
Apr 30, 1:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Merrick	62 min
Apr 30, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard	60 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.