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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Hastings, NE

April 14, 2012Jewell County, Mitchell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 2012, 2:28 PM CDT for Jewell County, Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 23 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: Apr 14, 2012, 2:28 PM CDT (19:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 2012, 2:51 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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
Apr 14, 2:30 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Glen Elder, KS	POWER LINES REPORTED DOWN IN THE GLEN ELDER RESERVIOR AREA.
Apr 14, 2:45 PM CDT	TSTM WND GST 60	Beloit, KS

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
Apr 14, 10:43 AM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 230 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: 1516 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 527 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 413 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 432 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 11.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

776 
WFUS53 KGID 141928
TORGID
KSC089-123-142000-
/O.NEW.KGID.TO.W.0011.120414T1928Z-120414T2000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
228 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN JEWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
  MITCHELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 224 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF GLEN ELDER...OR 13 MILES WEST OF
  BELOIT...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BELOIT...GLEN ELDER...JEWELL AND RANDALL.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING SEVERAL TORNADOES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR
THE TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW.

&&

LAT...LON 3922 9836 3929 9848 3937 9849 3941 9849
      3973 9832 3971 9793 3957 9797 3921 9820
TIME...MOT...LOC 1928Z 213DEG 34KT 3944 9832
HAIL 1.00IN

$$

WESELY

1 follow-up statement

221 
WWUS53 KGID 141951 RRA
SVSGID

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
251 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012

KSC089-123-142000-
/O.CAN.KGID.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-120414T2000Z/
MITCHELL KS-JEWELL KS-
251 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN JEWELL AND MITCHELL COUNTIES
IS CANCELLED...

THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS
BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN 
EFFECT FOR THE AREA.

IN ADDITION...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY REDEVELOP...AND A TORNADO 
WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CDT.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR 
PORTION OF MITCHELL AND JEWELL COUNTIES.

LAT...LON 3922 9836 3929 9848 3937 9849 3941 9849
      3973 9832 3971 9793 3957 9797 3921 9820
TIME...MOT...LOC 1950Z 213DEG 34KT 3961 9817

$$

WESELY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 4:07 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	13 hr
Apr 14, 11:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	44 min
Apr 14, 11:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	41 min
Apr 14, 11:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Osborne, Smith	50 min
Apr 14, 12:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Rooks	41 min
Apr 14, 12:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith	36 min
Apr 14, 12:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips	27 min
Apr 14, 12:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	49 min
Apr 14, 12:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Smith	48 min
Apr 14, 12:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell	38 min
Apr 14, 1:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Smith	23 min
Apr 14, 1:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Osborne, Smith	26 min
Apr 14, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	17 min
Apr 14, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	49 min
Apr 14, 1:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	48 min
Apr 14, 1:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	29 min
Apr 14, 1:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	33 min
Apr 14, 2:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	29 min
Apr 14, 3:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell	12 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.