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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Hastings, NE

May 22, 2004Dawson County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2004, 5:13 PM CDT for Dawson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 62 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: May 22, 2004, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2004, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 62 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), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
May 22, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 48 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

851 
WFUS53 KGID 222213
TORGID
NEC047-222315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
512 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DAWSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 507 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO
  WAS LOCATED 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOTHENBURG...OR ABOUT 27 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  GOTHENBURG AROUND 540 PM CDT...
  WILLOW ISLAND AROUND 550 PM CDT...
  COZAD AROUND 555 PM CDT...
  LEXINGTON AROUND 615 PM CDT...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING INCH 
AND ONE HALF SIZE HAIL.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4086 10060 4073 10044 4071 9964 4103 9965

$$
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Webster	41 min
May 21, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Nuckolls	61 min
May 21, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	49 min
May 21, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams	63 min
May 21, 10:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley	66 min
May 21, 11:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney	57 min
May 21, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall	59 min
May 22, 12:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Valley	46 min
May 22, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall, Merrick	63 min
May 22, 12:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton, York	58 min
May 22, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nance	54 min
May 22, 1:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley	45 min
May 22, 4:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Furnas	51 min
May 22, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	63 min
May 22, 5:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan	66 min
May 22, 6:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Franklin	63 min
May 22, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney, Phelps	59 min
May 22, 6:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Harlan	33 min
May 22, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Thayer	56 min
May 22, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Sherman	66 min
May 22, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams	59 min
May 22, 6:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Fillmore, Thayer	42 min
May 22, 6:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Adams	54 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.