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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Hastings, NE

May 29, 2004Dawson County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2004, 6:12 PM CDT for Dawson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 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 29, 2004, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dawson County, NE

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 66 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: 192 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -656 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 342 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 362 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGID 292312
TORGID
NEC047-300015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
611 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 607 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO
  WAS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTH OF LEXINGTON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  EDDYVILLE AND SUMNER AROUND 640 PM CDT...

THIS WARNING CONTINUES THE TORNADO WARNING WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY IN 
EFFECT FOR DAWSON COUNTY.

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 4072 10021 4072 9947 4102 9944 4105 10020

$$

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, 4:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Fillmore, Thayer	46 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, 6:16 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.