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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Hastings, NE

June 19, 2010Jewell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2010, 5:37 PM CDT for Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 2010, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2010, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Jewell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 19, 5:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 238 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2010-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4199 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 12:00Z on 2010-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 109 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
4199 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jun 19, 3:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 3:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
343 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 2010

.SHORT TERM...THE MAIN SHORT TERM ISSUE IS THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT.
THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY HAS SURGED BACK NORTH...WITH 70 DEGREES SURFACE
DEWPOINTS UP TO THE KANSAS BORDER. VERY UNSTABLE AIR MASS ASSOCIATED
WITH INCREASING MOISTURE...ALTHOUGH STRONG CAP IS HOLDING. CU FIELD
IN NORTHERN KANSAS IS RIGHT NEAR THE FRONT. THE NORTHERN CWFA IS A
DIFFERENT STORY...WITH MIDDLE 50S DEWPOINTS AND PLEASANT LOWER 80S
TEMPERATURES. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY HINTS AT WEAK PERTURBATION IN
NORTHEAST COLORADO...SORT OF AN EXTENSION OF STRONGER PART OF WAVE
MOVING INTO THE DAKOTAS.

ESSENTIALLY...WE ARE WAITING FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO BREAK THE STRONG
CAP. THAT LOOKS LIKE VERY LATE THIS AFTERNOON...OR EARLY THIS
EVENING. IF/WHEN STORMS DEVELOP...THERE WILL QUICKLY BE SEVERE
WITH CAPES ABOUT 3K MOVING INTO THE AREA...GOOD SHEAR...AND THE
POSSIBILITY OF A TORNADO NEAR THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. STILL SOME
UNCERTAINTY ON THE TIMING AND INITIATION POINT...BUT HAVE INCLUDED
SEVERE WORDING WITH HIGHEST PRECIPITATION CHANCES THIS EVENING.
LOW LEVEL JET WILL FEED INTO THE SYSTEM EARLY ON...BUT VEER OFF
FURTHER EAST AROUND MIDNIGHT. THAT SHOULD START TO TAKE THE
STORMS EAST OVERNIGHT...AND LESSEN CWFA STORM COVERAGE AND TAKE
HEAVY RAIN WITH IT.

THE FRONT IS FORECAST TO PUSH FURTHER NORTH SUNDAY...AND SHARE
THE HEAT AND HUMIDITY AT LEAST UP TO INTERSTATE 80. TEMPERATURES
OF 95 TO 100 DEGREES ARE LIKELY ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
AND FAR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA CWFA. HARD TO THINK IT WON/T BE AT
LEAST BREEZY SOUTH OF THE FRONT SUNDAY. NORTHER CWFA WILL NOT
BE QUITE AS WARM...BUT WARMER THAN TODAY. THE FRONT IS FORECAST
TO BE 60 TO 100 MILES NORTH AND WILL ONCE AGAIN BE A FOCAL POINT
FOR THUNDERSTORMS...BUT STILL BATTLING A STRONG CAP TO FORM. THE
NORTHERN CWFA APPEARS MORE IN LINE FOR ANY SEVERE RISK SUNDAY...
NOT ONLY FROM THE FRONTAL ZONE BUT ALSO FROM THUNDERSTORMS
ROLLING EAST ACROSS NORTHERN NEBRASKA FROM THE HIGH PLAINS. DIDN/T
MAKE TOO MANY CHANGES TO THE SUNDAY/SUNDAY NIGHT FORECAST.

.LONG TERM...STARTING 12Z MONDAY...PRIMARY FORECAST CONCERNS CENTER
UPON CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION AND WARM TEMPERATURES. LONG RANGE
MODEL GUIDANCE SUGGESTS THE SURFACE BOUNDARY RESPONSIBLE FOR
TODAYS PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE LINGERING OVER THE AREA THROUGH
EARLY TO MID NEXT WEEK...THUS PRESENTING ADDITIONAL PRECIPITATION
CHANCES ACROSS THE CWA. THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE IS EXPECTED TO
CONTINUE STRENGTHENING THROUGH MID NEXT WEEK...BUT MID LEVEL
PERTURBATIONS WORKING UP THE BACKSIDE OF THE RIDGE WILL PRESENT
ADDITIONAL DPVA AND WAA FOR SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY
ACROSS THE AREA. FINALLY...OVERNIGHT LLJ ACTIVITY...ESPECIALLY
ACROSS EAST AND NORTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF THE CWA...WILL LIKELY
PRESENT ENOUGH LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE AND THETA-E ADVECTION FOR
OVERNIGHT CONVECTION. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN AT ABOVE CLIMO
LEVELS THROUGHOUT THE EXTENDED FORECAST PERIOD AS THE UPPER LEVEL
RIDGE CONTINUES BUILDING IN AND 850MB TEMPERATURES REMAIN IN THE
MID TO UPPER 20 DEGREES C. CURRENTLY HAVE FORECAST HIGH
TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 80S ACROSS OUR NORTH...AND IN THE UPPER
90S TO NEAR 100 ACROSS OUR SOUTH THROUGHOUT THE EXTENDED FORECAST
PERIOD.

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1237 PM CDT SAT JUN 19 2010/

AVIATION...18Z TAF. FRONT JUST SOUTH OF KGRI WILL RESULT IN EAST
WINDS THROUGH THE DAY TODAY WITH VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED INITIALLY.
THE FRONT WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR LATE DAY/EARLY EVENING STORMS
WHICH WILL IMPACT KGRI WITH LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS AND MVFR CEILINGS
AND VISIBILITIES. THE FRONT WILL LIFT FURTHER NORTH TOWARD THE
END OF THE FORECAST PERIOD ALLOWING MOISTURE TO SURGE NORTH AND
SOME FOG MAY DEVELOP.

&&

.GID WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NE...NONE.
KS...NONE.
&&
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In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 5:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas, Harlan43 min
Jun 19, 5:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDKearney, Phelps40 min
Jun 19, 5:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFranklin, Harlan33 min
Jun 19, 6:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFranklin, Webster48 min
Jun 19, 6:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHarlan40 min
Jun 19, 7:16 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDClay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer, Webster44 min
Jun 19, 7:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips, Smith46 min
Jun 19, 7:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell49 min
Jun 19, 7:27 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDRooks33 min
Jun 19, 7:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Rooks50 min
Jun 19, 7:58 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDSmith32 min
Jun 19, 8:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDSmith18 min
Jun 19, 8:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith38 min
Jun 19, 8:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell, Mitchell34 min
Jun 19, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell50 min
Jun 19, 5:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDOsborne45 min
Jun 19, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDOsborne, Rooks42 min
Jun 19, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell46 min
Jun 19, 5:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGIDPhillips42 min
Jun 19, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips, Rooks, Smith52 min
Jun 19, 5:56 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGIDJewell6 hr
Jun 19, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell, Osborne, Smith24 min
Jun 19, 6:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell, Mitchell, Osborne34 min
Jun 19, 6:14 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDJewell46 min
Jun 19, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips, Rooks, Smith38 min
Jun 19, 6:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPhillips, Rooks28 min
Jun 19, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith38 min
Jun 19, 6:48 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDOsborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith27 min
Jun 19, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDSmith27 min
Jun 19, 6:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDJewell51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.