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Tornado Warning 63, NWS Hastings, NE

June 12, 2004Mitchell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 45 min. 4 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: Jun 12, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mitchell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:45 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
Jun 12, 8:05 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	Scottsville, KS
Jun 12, 8:12 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	4 Sw Jamestown, KS
Jun 12, 8:22 PM CDT	HAIL 0.88	2 S Jamestown, KS
Jun 12, 8:39 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Concordia, KS

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
Jun 12, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 3291 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1132 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.0
Supercell composite: 12.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGID 130045
TORGID
KSC123-130130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
745 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MITCHELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 741 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO
  WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTH OF BELOIT...OR ABOUT 23 MILES WEST OF
  CONCORDIA...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  SCOTTSVILLE AROUND 755 PM CDT...


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 3961 9817 3943 9817 3939 9749 3964 9749

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	48 min
Jun 12, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	46 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.