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Tornado Warning 72, NWS Hastings, NE

July 7, 2004Rooks County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 2004, 6:43 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 47 min. 9 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: Jul 7, 2004, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2004, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Rooks County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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
Jul 7, 6:54 PM CDT	HAIL 1	1 E Stockton, KS
Jul 7, 6:54 PM CDT	HAIL 1	1 E Stockton, KS
Jul 7, 7:07 PM CDT	HAIL 1	Stockton, KS
Jul 7, 7:07 PM CDT	HAIL 1	Stockton, KS
Jul 7, 7:15 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	6 Nw Natoma, KS	TREES 12 TO 14 INCHES IN DIAMETER BLOWN DOWN.
Jul 7, 7:20 PM CDT	HAIL 1	Stockton, KS
Jul 7, 7:20 PM CDT	HAIL 1	Stockton, KS
Jul 7, 7:40 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	1 S Codell, KS	STORAGE SHED DESTROYED
Jul 7, 7:40 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	1 S Codell, KS	STORAGE SHED DESTROYED

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
Jul 7, 2:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 432 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -264 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1079 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGID 072343
TORGID
KSC163-080030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
642 PM CDT WED JUL 7 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT

* AT 638 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO
  WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF WOODSTON...OR ABOUT 29 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF PHILLIPSBURG...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CODELL.

ADDITIONAL STORMS IN SOUTHERN PHILLIPS COUNTY MAY ALSO MOVE INTO 
ROOKS COUNTY AND PRODUCE TORNADOES.

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 3955 9906 3955 9933 3913 9928 3914 9905

$$

EWALD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 1:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	61 min
Jul 7, 2:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell	59 min
Jul 7, 3:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	63 min
Jul 7, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Smith	62 min
Jul 7, 4:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Jewell	3 hr
Jul 7, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne	62 min
Jul 7, 4:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Mitchell	6 hr
Jul 7, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Smith	68 min
Jul 7, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Smith	61 min
Jul 7, 5:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Osborne	6 hr
Jul 7, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	59 min
Jul 7, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	31 min
Jul 7, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips	56 min
Jul 7, 6:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Phillips	41 min
Jul 7, 6:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Osborne	49 min
Jul 7, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Smith	45 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.