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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2011, 6:14 PM CDT for Osborne County, Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 31 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 1, 2011, 6:14 PM CDT (23:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2011, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Osborne County, KS, Rooks County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 6:25 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 4 Se Alton, KS | DAMAGE FROM POSSIBLE TORNADO, TREE LIMBS SNAPPED, DOWNED POWER POLES |
| Jun 1, 6:30 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Alton, KS | |
| Jun 1, 6:35 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | 2 Sw Alton, KS | HAIL THE LAST 15 MINUTES REPORTED |
| Jun 1, 6:35 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Alton, KS | HAIL THE LAST 15 MINUTES REPORTED |
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 1, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 1745 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 650 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 11.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
790
WFUS53 KGID 012314
TORGID
KSC141-163-012345-
/O.NEW.KGID.TO.W.0038.110601T2314Z-110601T2345Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
614 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN OSBORNE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
NORTHEASTERN ROOKS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 645 PM CDT
* AT 611 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WOODSTON...OR 27 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
PHILLIPSBURG...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ALTON.
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 3957 9910 3957 9877 3938 9876 3929 9915
3943 9928
TIME...MOT...LOC 2315Z 240DEG 20KT 3944 9900
HAIL 1.75IN
$$1 follow-up statement
433
WWUS53 KGID 012335
SVSGID
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
635 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2011
KSC141-163-012345-
/O.CON.KGID.TO.W.0038.000000T0000Z-110601T2345Z/
ROOKS KS-OSBORNE KS-
635 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2011
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN OSBORNE AND
NORTHEASTERN ROOKS COUNTIES UNTIL 645 PM CDT...
AT 630 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ALTON...OR 29 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN OSBORNE COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3957 9910 3957 9877 3938 9876 3929 9915
3943 9928
TIME...MOT...LOC 2335Z 240DEG 20KT 3950 9887
HAIL 1.75IN
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 40 min |
| Jun 1, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 52 min |
| Jun 1, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell, Osborne | 52 min |
| Jun 1, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 52 min |
| Jun 1, 5:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Osborne, Rooks | 26 min |
| Jun 1, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 32 min |
| Jun 1, 6:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith | 24 min |
| Jun 1, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 48 min |
| Jun 1, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Osborne | 48 min |
| Jun 1, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 45 min |
| Jun 1, 6:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GID | Osborne | 4 hr |
| Jun 1, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 22 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.