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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2008, 5:32 PM CDT for 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report 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, 2008, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2008, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Buffalo County, NE, Dawson County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Phelps County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 5:41 PM CDT | TORNADO | 7 Sw Overton, NE |
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, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 791 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 751 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGID 292232 TORGID NEC019-047-073-137-292300- /O.NEW.KGID.TO.W.0023.080529T2232Z-080529T2300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 532 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN BUFFALO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA SOUTHEASTERN DAWSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NORTHEASTERN GOSPER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NORTHWESTERN PHELPS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 529 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR SMITHFIELD...OR 9 MILES SOUTH OF LEXINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... OVERTON BY 540 PM CDT ELM CREEK BY 550 PM CDT THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 80 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 238 AND 259. LAT...LON 4089 9938 4059 9931 4054 9974 4071 9981 TIME...MOT...LOC 2232Z 249DEG 44KT 4066 9966 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KGID 292248 SVSGID SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 547 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008 NEC019-047-073-137-292300- /O.CON.KGID.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-080529T2300Z/ BUFFALO NE-DAWSON NE-GOSPER NE-PHELPS NE- 547 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR NORTHWESTERN PHELPS...NORTHEASTERN GOSPER...SOUTHEASTERN DAWSON AND SOUTHWESTERN BUFFALO COUNTIES... AT 542 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR OVERTON...OR 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEXINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 80 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 238 AND 259. AT 541 PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OVERTON. ELM CREEK IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. LAT...LON 4089 9938 4059 9931 4054 9974 4071 9981 TIME...MOT...LOC 2247Z 252DEG 48KT 4070 9942 $$
000 WWUS53 KGID 292257 SVSGID SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 557 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008 NEC019-047-073-137-292307- /O.EXP.KGID.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-080529T2300Z/ BUFFALO NE-DAWSON NE-GOSPER NE-PHELPS NE- 557 PM CDT THU MAY 29 2008 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN PHELPS...NORTHEASTERN GOSPER...SOUTHEASTERN DAWSON AND SOUTHWESTERN BUFFALO COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 600 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA...AND NO LONGER POSES A THREAT. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT. LAT...LON 4089 9938 4059 9931 4054 9974 4071 9981 TIME...MOT...LOC 2257Z 252DEG 48KT 4074 9925 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 3:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 18 more | 24 hr |
| May 29, 3:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson, Gosper | 52 min |
| May 29, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Gosper, Phelps | 31 min |
| May 29, 4:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Dawson, Gosper | 5 hr |
| May 29, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps | 40 min |
| May 29, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson, Gosper | 28 min |
| May 29, 4:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Gosper, Phelps | 4 hr |
| May 29, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Sherman | 50 min |
| May 29, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Kearney, Phelps | 33 min |
| May 29, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson, Gosper, Phelps | 38 min |
| May 29, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Kearney, Phelps | 51 min |
| May 29, 5:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Buffalo, Kearney | 4 hr |
| May 29, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Greeley, Howard, Sherman | 46 min |
| May 29, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Hall, Kearney | 46 min |
| May 29, 5:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Sherman | 6 hr |
| May 29, 5:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Hall | 6 hr |
| May 29, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Adams, Hall | 38 min |
| May 29, 6:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Greeley, Howard | 6 hr |
| May 29, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo, Kearney | 17 min |
| May 29, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nance | 26 min |
| May 29, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hall, Hamilton, Howard, Merrick | 40 min |
| May 29, 6:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Hamilton, Merrick | 6 hr |
| May 29, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Hall, Hamilton | 29 min |
| May 29, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Hall | 13 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.