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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 3:10 PM CDT for Clay County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 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 24, 2004, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clay County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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 24, 11:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 731 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
035 WFUS53 KGID 242010 TORGID NEC035-242100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 309 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 306 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES EAST OF DEWEESE...OR ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HASTINGS...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... EDGAR AROUND 315 PM CDT... SARONVILLE AROUND 330 PM CDT... ONG AND SUTTON AROUND 340 PM CDT... THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED EARLIER FOR CLAY COUNTY. 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 1000 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4069 9819 4035 9817 4035 9783 4068 9785 $$ EWALD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay | 65 min |
| May 24, 3:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 38 min |
| May 24, 3:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore, Thayer | 59 min |
| May 24, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | York | 66 min |
| May 24, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 48 min |
| May 24, 4:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Thayer | 32 min |
| May 24, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Thayer | 30 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.