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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Hastings, NE

May 8, 2016Osborne County, Kansas

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2016, 8:08 PM CDT for Osborne County, Kansas. It was in force for 37 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 8, 2016, 8:08 PM CDT (01:08 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2016, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.75 in

County Osborne County, KS

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 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 8, 8:21 PM CDT	HAIL 1.75	9 Ssw Osborne, KS	LARGEST HAIL WAS GOLF BALL SIZE. LOCATION WAS 4 NE OF COVERT.
May 8, 8:49 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	3 Wnw Tipton, KS	PHOTO VIA TWITTER. BRIEF ROPE DESCENDED BUT CANNOT CONFIRM GROUND CONTACT.

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 8, 3:44 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 233 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2958 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

177 
WFUS53 KGID 090108
TORGID
KSC141-090145-
/O.NEW.KGID.TO.W.0010.160509T0108Z-160509T0145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
808 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL OSBORNE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT
    
* AT 808 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
  WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF NATOMA...OR 41 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  PHILLIPSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL. 

  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 TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  CENTRAL OSBORNE COUNTY.

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 3915 9888 3932 9897 3951 9849 3925 9849
TIME...MOT...LOC 0108Z 255DEG 37KT 3927 9885 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.75IN

$$

HEINLEIN

1 follow-up statement

625 
WWUS53 KGID 090144
SVSGID

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
844 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016

KSC141-090154-
/O.EXP.KGID.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-160509T0145Z/
OSBORNE KS-
844 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL OSBORNE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 845
PM CDT...
    
THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED AND THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN
CANCELLED. HOWEVER...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS REMAIN LIKELY AND A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL
KANSAS.

LAT...LON 3915 9888 3932 9897 3951 9849 3925 9849
TIME...MOT...LOC 0141Z 255DEG 37KT 3927 9885 

$$

HEINLEIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks	43 min
May 8, 7:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Phillips	24 min
May 8, 7:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	30 min
May 8, 7:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith	47 min
May 8, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	30 min
May 8, 8:25 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Osborne, Rooks	5 hr
May 8, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Smith	47 min
May 8, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne	47 min
May 8, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	47 min
May 8, 9:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	23 min
May 8, 9:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Mitchell	48 min
May 8, 9:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	48 min
May 8, 10:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	41 min
May 8, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	43 min
May 8, 10:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Mitchell	50 min
May 8, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne	42 min
May 8, 10:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Rooks	39 min
May 8, 11:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne	52 min
May 9, 12:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell	41 min
May 9, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Osborne, Rooks	35 min
May 9, 12:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne	48 min
May 9, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell	14 min
May 9, 1:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	44 min
May 9, 1:41 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	GID	Mitchell, Osborne, Rooks	9 hr
May 9, 1:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Mitchell	48 min
May 9, 2:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Mitchell	32 min
May 9, 2:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Rooks	27 min
May 9, 3:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Smith	29 min
May 9, 3:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phillips, Rooks, Smith	23 min
May 9, 3:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Smith	31 min
May 9, 5:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	42 min
May 9, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	43 min
May 9, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell	48 min
May 9, 6:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GID	Jewell	3 hr
May 9, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Jewell, Mitchell	46 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.