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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Hastings, NE

May 2, 2012Fillmore County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2012, 10:40 PM CDT for Fillmore County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 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: May 2, 2012, 10:40 PM CDT (03:40 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2012, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Fillmore County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:42 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
May 2, 10:44 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	1 N Strang, NE
May 2, 10:47 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Geneva, 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
May 2, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 2533 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1223 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

451 
WFUS53 KGID 030340
TORGID
NEC059-030415-
/O.NEW.KGID.TO.W.0021.120503T0340Z-120503T0415Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1040 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN FILLMORE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT

* AT 1037 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR STRANG...OR 29 MILES SOUTH OF YORK...AND
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GENEVA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AND CONFIRM AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW.

&&

LAT...LON 4059 9755 4057 9743 4044 9737 4042 9754
      4039 9766 4050 9772
TIME...MOT...LOC 0340Z 227DEG 15KT 4046 9761
HAIL 1.75IN

$$

WESELY

3 follow-up statements

247 
WWUS53 KGID 030348
SVSGID

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1048 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2012

NEC059-030415-
/O.CON.KGID.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-120503T0415Z/
FILLMORE NE-
1048 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2012

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL FILLMORE COUNTY
UNTIL 1115 PM CDT...

AT 1046 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR STRANG...OR 29 MILES SOUTH OF YORK...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

AT 1039 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 
HALFWAY TO THE GROUND LOCATED ONE MILE NORTH OF STRANG. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  GENEVA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AND CONFIRM AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW.

&&

LAT...LON 4059 9755 4057 9743 4044 9737 4042 9754
      4040 9761 4050 9769
TIME...MOT...LOC 0348Z 233DEG 15KT 4046 9756
HAIL 1.75IN

$$

WESELY

920 
WWUS53 KGID 030358
SVSGID

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1058 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2012

NEC059-030415-
/O.CON.KGID.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-120503T0415Z/
FILLMORE NE-
1058 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2012

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL FILLMORE COUNTY
UNTIL 1115 PM CDT...

AT 1056 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD.  A
TORNADO MAY DEVELOP AT ANY TIME. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 
MILES SOUTHEAST OF GENEVA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN FILLMORE COUNTY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AND CONFIRM AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW.

&&

LAT...LON 4044 9737 4044 9755 4047 9761 4051 9757
      4057 9758 4059 9755 4057 9743
TIME...MOT...LOC 0358Z 233DEG 15KT 4048 9752
HAIL 1.75IN

$$

WESELY

769 
WWUS53 KGID 030412
SVSGID

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1112 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2012

NEC059-030421-
/O.EXP.KGID.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-120503T0415Z/
FILLMORE NE-
1112 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2012

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL FILLMORE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
1115 PM CDT...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.

ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL POSSIBLE...AND A SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM CDT. 

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR 
PORTIONS OF FILLMORE COUNTY UNTIL 1145 PM CDT. 

LAT...LON 4044 9737 4044 9755 4047 9761 4051 9757
      4057 9758 4059 9755 4057 9743
TIME...MOT...LOC 0411Z 233DEG 15KT 4051 9746

$$

WESELY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 7:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Nance	30 min
May 2, 7:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Howard	24 min
May 2, 7:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall, Howard, Merrick	36 min
May 2, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley, Howard, Merrick, Nance	38 min
May 2, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Nuckolls, Webster	42 min
May 2, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	40 min
May 2, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nance	46 min
May 2, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard	41 min
May 2, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, Nuckolls, Thayer, York	48 min
May 2, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	44 min
May 2, 8:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Clay, Nuckolls, Thayer	26 min
May 2, 8:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Merrick, Nance	36 min
May 2, 9:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	York	36 min
May 2, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer	50 min
May 2, 9:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo	31 min
May 2, 9:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls	41 min
May 2, 9:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Thayer	29 min
May 2, 10:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer	3 hr
May 2, 10:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hamilton	23 min
May 2, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Hamilton	50 min
May 2, 10:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay	47 min
May 2, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore	43 min
May 2, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Kearney	29 min
May 2, 10:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Hamilton, Kearney	48 min
May 2, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore	43 min
May 2, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, York	23 min
May 2, 11:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Clay	6 hr
May 2, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore	33 min
May 2, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Hamilton	48 min
May 2, 11:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Hall, Hamilton	26 min
May 3, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay	50 min
May 3, 12:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore	45 min
May 3, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Nuckolls	47 min
May 3, 12:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay	39 min
May 3, 1:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Fillmore	6 hr
May 3, 1:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Webster	49 min
May 3, 1:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay	28 min
May 3, 3:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams	46 min
May 3, 4:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Franklin, Kearney, Webster	46 min
May 3, 4:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Kearney, Webster	46 min
May 3, 5:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Nuckolls	47 min
May 3, 5:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Fillmore	34 min
May 3, 7:00 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore	5 hr
May 3, 3:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phelps	34 min
May 3, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan, Kearney, Phelps	28 min
May 3, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan	47 min
May 3, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan	33 min
May 3, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan	43 min
May 3, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	27 min
May 3, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan	28 min
May 3, 6:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Howard	27 min
May 3, 6:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Nance	49 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.