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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2004, 7:53 PM CDT for Clay County, Fillmore County, Nebraska. It was in force for 67 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, 7:53 PM CDT (00:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2004, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:55 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 2882 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1091 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.2
- Supercell composite
- 16.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGID 230053 TORGID NEC035-059-230200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 753 PM CDT SAT MAY 22 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA FILLMORE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 750 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLAY CENTER...OR ABOUT 22 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HASTINGS...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ONG AND SARONVILLE AROUND 800 PM CDT... SUTTON AROUND 810 PM CDT... SHICKLEY AROUND 815 PM CDT... GRAFTON AROUND 820 PM CDT... STRANG AROUND 825 PM CDT... GENEVA AROUND 830 PM CDT... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BASEBALL 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. LAT...LON 4069 9823 4036 9823 4036 9736 4068 9739 $$
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, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Valley | 55 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, 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 |
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.