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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Hastings, NE

April 14, 2011Phillips County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 2011, 5:33 PM CDT for Phillips County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 14, 2011, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 2011, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Phillips County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 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.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 206 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

491 
WFUS53 KGID 142233
TORGID
KSC147-142300-
/O.NEW.KGID.TO.W.0003.110414T2233Z-110414T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
533 PM CDT THU APR 14 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN PHILLIPS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 531 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SPEED...OR 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  PHILLIPSBURG...AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LOGAN.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3960 9963 3984 9963 3966 9928 3956 9940
TIME...MOT...LOC 2233Z 121DEG 32KT 3963 9944

$$

BRYANT

2 follow-up statements

840 
WWUS53 KGID 142245
SVSGID

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
545 PM CDT THU APR 14 2011

KSC147-142300-
/O.CON.KGID.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-110414T2300Z/
PHILLIPS KS-
545 PM CDT THU APR 14 2011

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST CENTRAL PHILLIPS
COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM CDT...

AT 541 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LOGAN...OR 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 35 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LOGAN.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3970 9939 3960 9947 3960 9963 3984 9963
TIME...MOT...LOC 2245Z 121DEG 32KT 3969 9956

$$

BRYANT

308 
WWUS53 KGID 142253
SVSGID

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
553 PM CDT THU APR 14 2011

KSC147-142303-
/O.EXP.KGID.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-110414T2300Z/
PHILLIPS KS-
553 PM CDT THU APR 14 2011

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL PHILLIPS COUNTY WILL EXPIRE
AT 600 PM CDT...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF
THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 3970 9939 3960 9947 3960 9963 3984 9963
TIME...MOT...LOC 2253Z 121DEG 32KT 3973 9964

$$

BRYANT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 4:49 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	GID	Phillips, Rooks	40 hr
Apr 14, 1:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	36 min
Apr 14, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Smith	33 min
Apr 14, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips	44 min
Apr 14, 2:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Smith	39 min
Apr 14, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	29 min
Apr 14, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Smith	23 min
Apr 14, 2:44 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	30 hr
Apr 14, 3:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Rooks	33 min
Apr 14, 4:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Rooks	47 min
Apr 14, 4:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell, Smith	27 min
Apr 14, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith	30 min
Apr 14, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Smith	49 min
Apr 14, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Smith	24 min
Apr 14, 5:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Mitchell	26 min
Apr 14, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Smith	27 min
Apr 14, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Smith	40 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.