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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2004, 7:35 PM CDT for Valley County, Nebraska. It was in force for 55 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, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Valley County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1420 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
888 WFUS53 KGID 230035 TORGID NEC175-230130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 735 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... VALLEY COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 729 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 11 MILES WEST OF ARCADIA...OR ABOUT 16 MILES EAST OF BROKEN BOW...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ARCADIA AROUND 755 PM CDT... ORD AND ELYRIA AROUND 830 PM CDT... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. LAT...LON 4140 9947 4137 9908 4164 9873 4173 9915 $$ 10
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 7:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Webster | 43 min |
| May 22, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson, Gosper, York | 64 min |
| May 22, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore | 17 min |
| May 22, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Thayer | 16 min |
| May 22, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | York | 59 min |
| May 22, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Nuckolls | 58 min |
| May 22, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson | 57 min |
| May 22, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Polk | 44 min |
| May 22, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Phelps | 58 min |
| May 22, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton | 42 min |
| May 22, 7:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore | 67 min |
| May 22, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman | 66 min |
| May 22, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Polk | 49 min |
| May 22, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Thayer | 61 min |
| May 22, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | York | 58 min |
| May 22, 8:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Thayer | 56 min |
| May 22, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Howard | 53 min |
| May 22, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 25 min |
| May 22, 8:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore | 36 min |
| May 22, 9:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Fillmore | 6 hr |
| May 22, 9:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Thayer | 53 min |
| May 22, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore | 66 min |
| May 22, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 30 min |
| May 22, 10:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Thayer | 49 min |
| May 22, 10:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Thayer | 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.