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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Hastings, NE

May 6, 2015Adams County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2015, 4:18 PM CDT for Adams County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 min. 3 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 6, 2015, 4:18 PM CDT (21:18 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2015, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

County Adams County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 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 6, 4:22 PM CDT	TORNADO	1 S Roseland, NE
May 6, 4:24 PM CDT	TORNADO	Roseland, NE	CONFIRMED BUILDINGS AND HOMES DAMAGED.
May 6, 4:24 PM CDT	TORNADO	Roseland, NE	AT LEAST MINOR TORNADO DAMAGE REPORTED IN ROSELAND. EXTENT UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME.

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

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 64 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 641 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

581 
WFUS53 KGID 062118
TORGID
NEC001-062145-
/O.NEW.KGID.TO.W.0009.150506T2118Z-150506T2145Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN ADAMS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT
    
* AT 418 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR ROSELAND...OR 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  HASTINGS...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  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...
  ROSELAND AROUND 425 PM CDT.
  JUNIATA AROUND 440 PM CDT.
  KENESAW AROUND 445 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 4039 9853 4040 9865 4066 9870 4064 9838
      4047 9846
TIME...MOT...LOC 2118Z 186DEG 28KT 4042 9859 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

GUERRERO

1 follow-up statement

470 
WWUS53 KGID 062131
SVSGID

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

NEC001-062145-
/O.CON.KGID.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-150506T2145Z/
ADAMS NE-
431 PM CDT WED MAY 6 2015

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
ADAMS COUNTY...
    
AT 430 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR ROSELAND...OR 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HASTINGS...
MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

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...
         JUNIATA AROUND 440 PM CDT.
         KENESAW AROUND 445 PM CDT.

THIS WARNING NO LONGER INCLUDES THE CITY OF HASTINGS. 

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 4048 9861 4065 9866 4064 9844 4048 9852
TIME...MOT...LOC 2130Z 186DEG 28KT 4051 9858 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

GUERRERO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 2:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Webster	26 min
May 6, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Franklin, Kearney, Webster	29 min
May 6, 4:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Webster	26 min
May 6, 4:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Nuckolls	33 min
May 6, 4:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Thayer	32 min
May 6, 5:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Fillmore, Thayer	27 min
May 6, 5:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Clay	15 min
May 6, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Thayer	32 min
May 6, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Fillmore	9 min
May 6, 5:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	GID	Thayer	35 min
May 6, 5:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Hall	32 min
May 6, 6:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Thayer	37 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.