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Tornado Warning 52, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2004, 6:49 PM CDT for Sherman County, Nebraska. It was in force for 41 min. 3 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, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2004, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Sherman County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 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 29, 7:05 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 4 N Litchfield, NE | REPORTED 4 MILES NORTH AND 2 MILES EAST OF LITCHFIELD. |
| May 29, 7:14 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 8 S Loup City, NE | |
| May 29, 7:35 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | Ashton, NE | DIME TO PENNY SIZED HAIL OCCURRED FROM 735 PM TO 745 PM. |
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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGID 292349 CCA TORGID NEC163-300030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 644 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004 CORRECTED COUNTY REFERENCE THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SHERMAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 641 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES WEST OF LITCHFIELD...OR ABOUT 29 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BROKEN BOW...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LITCHFIELD AROUND 650 PM... LOUP CITY AROUND 715 PM CDT... SHERMAN RESERVOIR DAM AROUND 725 PM CDT... THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT FOR SHERMAN COUNTY. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL 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 4138 9920 4105 9919 4105 9876 4139 9878 $$ 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, 6:12 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, 6:57 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.