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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2004, 4:59 PM CDT for Fillmore County, Thayer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 min. 2 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 29, 2004, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2004, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Fillmore County, NE, Thayer County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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 | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 5:07 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 Sw Shickley, NE | |
| May 29, 5:25 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | Shickley, NE | SOUTHEAST SIDE OF SHICKLEY. |
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 29, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 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
- 1045 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -319 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1057 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGID 292159 TORGID NEC059-169-292245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 459 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FILLMORE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA THAYER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 458 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CARLETON...OR ABOUT 42 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HASTINGS...AND MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CARLETON AROUND 505 PM CDT... SHICKLEY AROUND 520 PM CDT... STRANG AROUND 525 PM CDT... GENEVA AROUND 540 PM CDT... A STORM SPOTTER REPORTED A STRONGLY ROTATING WALL CLOUD 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF DESHLER. 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 4020 9787 4014 9765 4062 9739 4070 9770 $$ NELSON/LAWRENCE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 62 min |
| May 29, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls, Thayer | 27 min |
| May 29, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson | 49 min |
| May 29, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 65 min |
| May 29, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore, Thayer | 61 min |
| May 29, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Gosper | 39 min |
| May 29, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson | 64 min |
| May 29, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | York | 56 min |
| May 29, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Polk | 64 min |
| May 29, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay | 62 min |
| May 29, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson | 63 min |
| May 29, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton, Merrick, Nance, Polk | 44 min |
| May 29, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman | 52 min |
| May 29, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Sherman | 45 min |
| May 29, 6:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Sherman | 41 min |
| May 29, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Nance | 33 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.