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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Hastings, NE

May 22, 2004Fillmore County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2004, 8:54 PM CDT for Fillmore County, Nebraska. It was in force for 36 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, 8:54 PM CDT (01:54 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2004, 9:30 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fillmore County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:58 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 135 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGID 230154
TORGID
NEC059-230230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 848 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO
  WAS LOCATED NEAR STRANG...OR ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF YORK...AND
  MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  OHIOWA AND FAIRMONT AROUND 900 PM CDT...
  MILLIGAN AND EXETER AROUND 910 PM CDT...

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 4068 9781 4037 9781 4036 9734 4069 9736

$$

NELSON

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, 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, 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.