Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Feb 28, 2012, 5:24 PM CST for Jewell County, Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 26 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
- Feb 28, 2012, 5:24 PM CST (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2012, 5:50 PM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Jewell County, KS, Mitchell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 5:28 PM CST | TORNADO | 5 Se Randall, KS | EF0 TORNADO TRACKED FOR TWO MILES FROM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RANDALL TO 6 MILES EAST-SOUTHEAST OF RANDALL. ONE FARM STRUCK...WITH DAMAGE INCLUDING METAL ROOF TORN OFF OUTBUILDING AND TREES SHEARED OFF. |
| Feb 28, 5:30 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | 5 Se Randall, KS | DAMAGE TO OUT BUILDINGS AND HOUSE. POWER POLLS BROKEN AND FELL ON C ROAD BETWEEN ROADS 290 AND 300. HALF INCH HAIL WAS ALSO 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 3:53 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1369 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 396 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
777 WFUS53 KGID 282324 TORGID KSC089-123-290000- /O.NEW.KGID.TO.W.0002.120228T2324Z-120229T0000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 524 PM CST TUE FEB 28 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN JEWELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... NORTHEASTERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... * UNTIL 600 PM CST * AT 521 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BELOIT...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RANDALL...SCOTTSVILLE AND FORMOSO. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. && LAT...LON 3958 9826 3983 9793 3943 9793 3939 9803 TIME...MOT...LOC 2324Z 240DEG 36KT 3954 9804 HAIL 0.88IN $$ GUERRERO
2 follow-up statements
331
WWUS53 KGID 282336
SVSGID
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
536 PM CST TUE FEB 28 2012
KSC089-123-290000-
/O.CON.KGID.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120229T0000Z/
MITCHELL KS-JEWELL KS-
536 PM CST TUE FEB 28 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN JEWELL AND
NORTHEASTERN MITCHELL COUNTIES UNTIL 600 PM CST...
AT 534 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH OF BELOIT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40
MPH. NEW CELL DEVELOPMENT APPROXIMATELY 5 MILES TO THE SOUTHWEST
OF THIS STORM IS ALSO BEING TRACKED FOR POTENTIAL TORNADO
DEVELOPMENT.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SCOTTSVILLE AND RANDALL.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3953 9818 3963 9817 3983 9793 3943 9793
3939 9803
TIME...MOT...LOC 2334Z 233DEG 36KT 3956 9804
HAIL 1.00IN
$$
GUERRERO727
WWUS53 KGID 282350
SVSGID
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
550 PM CST TUE FEB 28 2012
KSC089-123-290000-
/O.CAN.KGID.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120229T0000Z/
MITCHELL KS-JEWELL KS-
550 PM CST TUE FEB 28 2012
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN JEWELL AND NORTHEASTERN
MITCHELL COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA. HOWEVER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR
PORTIONS OF NORTHERN MITCHELL AND SOUTHEASTERN JEWELL COUNTIES UNTIL
6 PM CST.
LAT...LON 3953 9818 3963 9817 3983 9793 3943 9793
3939 9803
TIME...MOT...LOC 2350Z 233DEG 36KT 3965 9787
$$
GUERREROThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 3:58 AM CST | Wind Advisory | GID | Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 14 hr |
| Feb 28, 4:09 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | GID | Mitchell | 51 min |
| Feb 28, 4:49 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | GID | Jewell | 26 min |
| Feb 28, 5:12 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | GID | Jewell, Mitchell | 48 min |
| Feb 28, 5:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell | 42 min |
| Feb 28, 5:20 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | GID | Osborne, Smith | 40 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.