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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Hastings, NE

May 24, 2004Thayer County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 4:45 PM CDT for Thayer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 min. 6 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, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2004, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 30 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 21:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
May 24, 4:49 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	Hebron, NE
May 24, 4:49 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	Hebron, NE
May 24, 4:59 PM CDT	HAIL 1	Hubbell, NE
May 24, 4:59 PM CDT	HAIL 1	Hubbell, NE
May 24, 5:06 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	Hubbell, NE
May 24, 5:06 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	Hubbell, 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, 9.8 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.

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: 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

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The text

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

863 
WFUS53 KGID 242145
TORGID
NEC169-242215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
442 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 515 PM CDT

* AT 440 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO
  WAS LOCATED NEAR CHESTER...OR ABOUT 33 MILES NORTH OF CONCORDIA...
  AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HUBBELL AROUND 500 PM...
  RURAL SOUTHERN THAYER COUNTY BETWEEN 445 AND 515 PM CDT...

SEVERAL CONFIRMED TORNADOES HAVE ALREADY BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS 
STORM.

BASEBALL HAIL HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM EARLIER.

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, 4:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Thayer	32 min

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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.