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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Hastings, NE

April 14, 2012Furnas County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 2012, 5:33 PM CDT for Furnas County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 min. 3 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, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 2012, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Furnas County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 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, 5:37 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	3 W Beaver City, NE	LESS THAN HALF WAY TO THE GROUND
Apr 14, 5:50 PM CDT	HAIL 1.25	6 Nnw Oxford, NE
Apr 14, 6:08 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	2 Nnw Oxford, 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
Apr 14, 12:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1610 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 202 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.

944 
WFUS53 KGID 142233
TORGID
NEC065-142300-
/O.NEW.KGID.TO.W.0014.120414T2233Z-120414T2300Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FURNAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 530 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HENDLEY...OR 18 MILES NORTH OF NORTON...AND
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BEAVER CITY...HOLLINGER...EDISON AND OXFORD.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA.

&&

LAT...LON 4035 9984 4035 9963 4019 9963 4007 9973
      3999 9988 4011 10007
TIME...MOT...LOC 2233Z 218DEG 39KT 4012 9990
HAIL 1.00IN

$$

WESELY

1 follow-up statement

412 
WWUS53 KGID 142249
SVSGID

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

NEC065-142300-
/O.CON.KGID.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-120414T2300Z/
FURNAS NE-
549 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR FURNAS COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM
CDT...

AT 544 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BEAVER CITY...OR 24 MILES NORTH OF NORTON...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  EDISON AND OXFORD.

AT 545 PM CDT STORM CHASERS REPORTED A ROTATING WALL CLOUD TO THE 
WEST OF HOLLINGER. THIS WALL CLOUD WOULD BE JUST TO THE NORTHEAST OF 
BEAVER CITY.

LAT...LON 4035 9984 4035 9963 4019 9963 4007 9973
      3999 9988 4011 10007
TIME...MOT...LOC 2248Z 225DEG 35KT 4020 9976
HAIL 1.75IN

$$

WESELY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 9:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	22 min
Apr 14, 9:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	16 min
Apr 14, 9:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Fillmore, Thayer	48 min
Apr 14, 10:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Valley	43 min
Apr 14, 10:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Sherman, Valley	50 min
Apr 14, 10:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley, Valley	46 min
Apr 14, 11:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley	31 min
Apr 14, 11:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley	21 min
Apr 14, 12:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan	27 min
Apr 14, 12:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Webster	48 min
Apr 14, 12:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Nuckolls	38 min
Apr 14, 1:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	23 min
Apr 14, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Webster	49 min
Apr 14, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Thayer	45 min
Apr 14, 2:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Thayer	35 min
Apr 14, 3:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Fillmore, Thayer	14 min
Apr 14, 5:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Furnas	33 min
Apr 14, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper	49 min
Apr 14, 5:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	York	37 min
Apr 14, 5:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps	49 min
Apr 14, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Gosper, Phelps	44 min
Apr 14, 6:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	26 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.