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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 4:13 PM CDT for Thayer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 min. 13 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2004, 4:13 PM CDT (21:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Thayer County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 4:15 PM CDT | TORNADO | 4 S Ruskin, NE | 5 GRAIN BINS DESTROYED PLUS NUMEROUS POWER POLES SNAPPED WITH TRACK ABOUT 2 MILES LONG. |
| May 24, 4:15 PM CDT | TORNADO | 5 Sw Deshler, NE | TORNADO STRUCK RESIDENCE AND CAUSED EXTENSIVE DAMAGE. ROOF OFF HOME. GARAGE WALLS DESTROYED. LARGE METAL OUTBUILDINGS DESTROYED AND POWER LINES DOWN. TORNADO DESTROYED 2 OUTBUILDINGS AND ONE GRAIN BIN. THREE OTHER GRAIN BINS WERE HEAVILY DAMAGED. SEVERAL LARGE |
| May 24, 4:16 PM CDT | TORNADO | 5 W Hebron, NE | 3 TORNADOES ON GROUND...MOVING SE. |
| May 24, 4:16 PM CDT | TORNADO | 5 W Hebron, NE | 3 TORNADOES ON GROUND...MOVING SE. |
| May 24, 4:17 PM CDT | TORNADO | 5 Se Ruskin, NE | OVER RURAL AREA. |
| May 24, 4:22 PM CDT | HAIL 3 | Deshler, NE | BASEBALL SIZE HAIL IN DESHLER. |
| May 24, 4:22 PM CDT | HAIL 3 | Deshler, NE | BASEBALL SIZE HAIL IN DESHLER. |
| May 24, 4:29 PM CDT | TORNADO | 6 W Chester, NE | |
| May 24, 4:29 PM CDT | TORNADO | 6 W Chester, NE | |
| May 24, 4:35 PM CDT | TORNADO | 5 N Byron, NE | HOUSE ROOF TORN OFF. |
| May 24, 4:35 PM CDT | TORNADO | 5 N Byron, NE | HOUSE ROOF TORN OFF. |
| May 24, 4:49 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Hebron, NE | |
| May 24, 4:49 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Hebron, NE |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 176 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.
610 WFUS53 KGID 242113 TORGID NEC169-242145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 411 PM CDT MON MAY 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... THAYER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 405 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DESHLER...OR ABOUT 38 MILES NORTH OF CONCORDIA...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BYRON AROUND 425 PM CDT... CHESTER AROUND 435 PM CDT... SPOTTERS ALSO REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF HEBRON AT 410 PM. DESHLER IS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4027 9763 4013 9797 3984 9781 4001 9749 $$ 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, 3:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Clay | 50 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, 4:45 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.