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Tornado Warning 70, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 13, 2011, 8:50 PM CDT for Franklin County, Kearney County, Nebraska. It was in force for 25 min. 2 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 13, 2011, 8:50 PM CDT (01:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2011, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Franklin County, NE, Kearney County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 8:59 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 60 | Upland, NE | ESTIMATED 50 TO 60 MILES PER HOUR WITH NICKEL SIZE HAIL. |
| Jul 13, 9:04 PM CDT | TORNADO | 5 Se Upland, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 559 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -140 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 972 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
797 WFUS53 KGID 140150 TORGID NEC061-099-140215- /O.NEW.KGID.TO.W.0070.110714T0150Z-110714T0215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 850 PM CDT WED JUL 13 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... SOUTHEASTERN KEARNEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 847 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR UPLAND...OR 24 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOLDREGE...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. AT 843 PM CDT...FIRE PERSONNEL REPORTED A TORNADO APPROXIMATELY 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF UPLAND. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... UPLAND. 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 4040 9874 4026 9873 4025 9898 4035 9902 TIME...MOT...LOC 0150Z 262DEG 9KT 4030 9894 HAIL <.75IN $$ PFANNKUCH
1 follow-up statement
385 WWUS53 KGID 140203 SVSGID SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 903 PM CDT WED JUL 13 2011 NEC061-099-140215- /O.CON.KGID.TO.W.0070.000000T0000Z-110714T0215Z/ FRANKLIN NE-KEARNEY NE- 903 PM CDT WED JUL 13 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN KEARNEY AND NORTHEASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTIES UNTIL 915 PM CDT... AT 857 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR UPLAND...OR 26 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOLDREGE... MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN FRANKLIN AND SOUTHEASTERN KEARNEY COUNTIES SOUTH OF UPLAND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 4040 9874 4026 9873 4025 9898 4035 9902 TIME...MOT...LOC 0202Z 278DEG 10KT 4029 9890 HAIL 1.75IN $$ PFANNKUCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 7:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Kearney | 27 min |
| Jul 13, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Kearney | 35 min |
| Jul 13, 7:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Merrick | 34 min |
| Jul 13, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Harlan | 48 min |
| Jul 13, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Kearney | 37 min |
| Jul 13, 8:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Hamilton | 26 min |
| Jul 13, 8:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Kearney | 31 min |
| Jul 13, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Franklin, Kearney, Webster | 37 min |
| Jul 13, 9:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Franklin | 22 min |
| Jul 13, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Franklin, Webster | 30 min |
| Jul 13, 10:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Franklin | 43 min |
| Jul 13, 10:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Franklin | 37 min |
| Jul 13, 10:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Greeley | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin | 41 min |
| Jul 13, 11:11 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Franklin, Webster | 10 hr |
| Jul 14, 4:38 AM CDT | Excessive Heat Watch | GID | Adams, Clay, Fillmore, Greeley, Hall, Hamilton and 8 more | 11 hr |
| Jul 14, 8:34 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GID | Franklin | 6 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:18 PM CDT | Excessive Heat Watch | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 18 more | 24 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:18 PM CDT | Excessive Heat Warning | GID | Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Fillmore, Franklin and 18 more | 7 days |
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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.