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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Hastings, NE

May 6, 2015Mitchell County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2015, 2:48 PM CDT for Mitchell County, Kansas. It was in force for 27 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: May 6, 2015, 2:48 PM CDT (19:48 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2015, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Observed
Hail: 1.0 in

County Mitchell County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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.

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 6, 1:41 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 209 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: 879 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 222 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.

647 
WFUS53 KGID 061948
TORGID
KSC123-062015-
/O.NEW.KGID.TO.W.0004.150506T1948Z-150506T2015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
248 PM CDT WED MAY 6 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN MITCHELL COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT

* AT 246 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERTORM WITH AN OCCASIONAL CONFIRMED 
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BARNARD...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF 
  LINCOLN...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH.

  HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...WEATHER SPOTTERS CONFIRMED TORNADO. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE 
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ASHERVILLE AND SIMPSON AROUND 310 PM 
  CDT...BUT WILL INITIALLY IMPACT RURAL AREAS IN FAR SOUTHEAST 
  MITCHELL COUNTY EAST OF VICTOR. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A
BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY
BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A MOBILE HOME...OR
IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3943 9806 3943 9793 3922 9793 3922 9813
TIME...MOT...LOC 1946Z 201DEG 40KT 3917 9808 

TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...1.00IN

$$

PFANNKUCH

2 follow-up statements

283 
WWUS53 KGID 062000
SVSGID

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
300 PM CDT WED MAY 6 2015

KSC123-062015-
/O.CON.KGID.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-150506T2015Z/
MITCHELL KS-
300 PM CDT WED MAY 6 2015

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN MITCHELL COUNTY...
    
AT 257 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR BARNARD...OR 14 MILES SOUTH OF BELOIT...MOVING NORTH
AT 45 MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. ALTHOUGH THIS STORM STILL COULD 
PRODUCE A TORNADO...IT HAS WEAKENED SOMEWHAT IN THE PAST 10 MINUTES 
AND NO LONGER APPEARS TO HAVE A TORNADO ON THE GROUND. 

IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
         SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE 
         TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE DAMAGE IS 
         LIKELY. 

THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  AREAS MAINLY SOUTH OF ASHERVILLE AND SIMPSON AROUND 310 PM CDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3943 9806 3943 9793 3922 9793 3922 9813
TIME...MOT...LOC 1957Z 201DEG 40KT 3926 9803 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN

$$

PFANNKUCH

120 
WWUS53 KGID 062006
SVSGID

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
306 PM CDT WED MAY 6 2015

KSC123-062015-
/O.EXP.KGID.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-150506T2015Z/
MITCHELL KS-
306 PM CDT WED MAY 6 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN MITCHELL COUNTY WILL EXPIRE
AT 315 PM CDT...
                
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS 
AROUND THE TIME IT NEARED THE MITCHELL COUNTY LINE...AND NO LONGER 
APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL 
BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL
KANSAS.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
HASTINGS.

LAT...LON 3943 9806 3943 9793 3922 9793 3922 9813
TIME...MOT...LOC 2003Z 201DEG 40KT 3926 9803 

$$

PFANNKUCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 1:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Osborne	33 min
May 6, 2:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Osborne	37 min
May 6, 2:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Mitchell	25 min
May 6, 2:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Osborne, Rooks, Smith	43 min
May 6, 3:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Osborne, Smith	23 min
May 6, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Smith	30 min
May 6, 3:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Osborne, Smith	6 hr
May 6, 3:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	GID	Jewell	12 min
May 6, 3:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	GID	Jewell	23 min
May 6, 3:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Osborne	32 min
May 6, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	38 min
May 6, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Smith	49 min
May 6, 3:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell	32 min
May 6, 4:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell	26 min
May 6, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	34 min
May 6, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	48 min
May 6, 4:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell	26 min
May 6, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	41 min
May 6, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne	36 min
May 6, 4:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell	33 min
May 6, 5:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	27 min
May 6, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	35 min
May 6, 5:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Mitchell	28 min
May 6, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Smith	51 min
May 6, 5:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Jewell, Smith	3 hr
May 6, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	46 min
May 6, 5:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	32 min
May 6, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith	45 min
May 6, 6:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	31 min
May 6, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Smith	44 min
May 6, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	46 min

Nearby

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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.