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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Hastings, NE

May 19, 2012Fillmore County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 19, 2012, 5:59 PM CDT for Fillmore County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 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 19, 2012, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2012, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Fillmore County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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
May 19, 6:01 PM CDT	TORNADO	1 W Shickley, NE	SPOTTERS REPORTING A TORNADO 1 MILE WEST OF SHICKLEY.
May 19, 6:20 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Strang, NE	A GRAIN BIN WAS REPORTED IN THE SOUTHBOUND LANES OF HIGHWAY 81 NEAR STRANG BETWEEN ROADS S AND T. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR.

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 19, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 438 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -453 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1205 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 348 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 455 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

355 
WFUS53 KGID 192259
TORGID
NEC059-192330-
/O.NEW.KGID.TO.W.0027.120519T2259Z-120519T2330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
559 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 557 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SHICKLEY...OR 33 MILES SOUTH OF YORK...AND
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  STRANG...GENEVA...MILLIGAN AND EXETER.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4046 9736 4035 9774 4046 9781 4070 9739
      4070 9737 4060 9736
TIME...MOT...LOC 2259Z 240DEG 25KT 4042 9773
HAIL 1.75IN

$$

HEINLEIN

2 follow-up statements

587 
WWUS53 KGID 192321
SVSGID

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
621 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 2012

NEC059-192330-
/O.CON.KGID.TO.W.0027.000000T0000Z-120519T2330Z/
FILLMORE NE-
621 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 2012

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR FILLMORE COUNTY UNTIL 630
PM CDT...

AT 620 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GENEVA...OR 23 MILES SOUTH OF YORK...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MILLIGAN AND EXETER.

LAT...LON 4046 9736 4035 9774 4046 9781 4070 9739
      4070 9737 4060 9736
TIME...MOT...LOC 2321Z 231DEG 31KT 4055 9755
HAIL 1.50IN

$$

HEINLEIN

349 
WWUS53 KGID 192328
SVSGID

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
628 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 2012

NEC059-192338-
/O.EXP.KGID.TO.W.0027.000000T0000Z-120519T2330Z/
FILLMORE NE-
628 PM CDT SAT MAY 19 2012

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR FILLMORE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 630 PM
CDT...

THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS
EXPIRED. HOWEVER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT
FOR THE AREA UNTIL 645 PM CDT. 

LAT...LON 4046 9736 4035 9774 4046 9781 4070 9739
      4070 9737 4060 9736
TIME...MOT...LOC 2328Z 231DEG 31KT 4057 9750

$$

HEINLEIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 2:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	41 min
May 19, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	37 min
May 19, 3:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams, Webster	38 min
May 19, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Clay, Webster	41 min
May 19, 4:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Clay	43 min
May 19, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Hamilton	42 min
May 19, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Nuckolls, Webster	48 min
May 19, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Webster	31 min
May 19, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton, Merrick, Nance, Polk, York	37 min
May 19, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Webster	49 min
May 19, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton, Polk, York	46 min
May 19, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer	41 min
May 19, 5:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer	36 min
May 19, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk, York	46 min
May 19, 5:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Nuckolls	31 min
May 19, 5:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Dawson	45 min
May 19, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	York	49 min
May 19, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer	48 min
May 19, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	44 min
May 19, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Hall	38 min
May 19, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk	30 min
May 19, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	York	21 min
May 19, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall, Hamilton, Merrick	30 min
May 19, 6:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, York	3 hr

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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.