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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 2012, 1:31 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 2012, 1:31 PM CDT (18:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2012, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Mitchell County, KS, Osborne County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
976
WFUS53 KGID 141831
TORGID
KSC123-141-141900-
/O.NEW.KGID.TO.W.0008.120414T1831Z-120414T1900Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
131 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
EASTERN OSBORNE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 200 PM CDT
* AT 128 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LURAY...OR 47 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF BELOIT...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HUNTER...OSBORNE...TIPTON...VICTOR...DOWNS AND PORTIS.
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 3913 9885 3957 9870 3937 9809 3921 9830
3921 9848 3913 9850
TIME...MOT...LOC 1831Z 212DEG 49KT 3903 9873
HAIL 1.75IN
$$
HEINLEIN1 follow-up statement
979
WWUS53 KGID 141849
SVSGID
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
149 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012
KSC123-141-141900-
/O.CON.KGID.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-120414T1900Z/
OSBORNE KS-MITCHELL KS-
149 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN MITCHELL AND
EASTERN OSBORNE COUNTIES UNTIL 200 PM CDT...
AT 147 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LURAY...OR 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BELOIT...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HUNTER...TIPTON...VICTOR...OSBORNE...DOWNS AND PORTIS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3913 9885 3957 9870 3937 9809 3921 9830
3921 9848 3913 9850
TIME...MOT...LOC 1850Z 221DEG 39KT 3917 9859
HAIL 1.75IN
$$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, 1:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Mitchell, Osborne | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell | 23 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.