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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2016, 6:19 PM CDT for Fillmore County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 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 27, 2016, 6:19 PM CDT (23:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2016, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.5 in
County Fillmore County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 984 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
131
WFUS53 KGID 272319
TORGID
NEC059-272345-
/O.NEW.KGID.TO.W.0016.160527T2319Z-160527T2345Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
619 PM CDT FRI MAY 27 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN FILLMORE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...
* UNTIL 645 PM CDT
* AT 619 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED OVER OHIOWA...OR 30 MILES SOUTH OF YORK...MOVING NORTH AT
15 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND PING PONG 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 DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
MILLIGAN AROUND 635 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 4037 9756 4060 9753 4063 9737 4036 9737
TIME...MOT...LOC 2319Z 183DEG 14KT 4044 9744
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.50IN
$$
EWALD2 follow-up statements
995
WWUS53 KGID 272334
SVSGID
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
634 PM CDT FRI MAY 27 2016
NEC059-272345-
/O.CON.KGID.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-160527T2345Z/
FILLMORE NE-
634 PM CDT FRI MAY 27 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR EAST
CENTRAL FILLMORE COUNTY...
AT 633 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 2 MILES WEST OF MILLIGAN...OR 27 MILES SOUTH OF
YORK...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MILLIGAN.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER
AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4046 9751 4060 9753 4063 9737 4045 9737
TIME...MOT...LOC 2333Z 199DEG 18KT 4050 9741
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.50IN
$$
EWALD111
WWUS53 KGID 272345
SVSGID
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
645 PM CDT FRI MAY 27 2016
NEC059-272354-
/O.EXP.KGID.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-160527T2345Z/
FILLMORE NE-
645 PM CDT FRI MAY 27 2016
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL FILLMORE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE
AT 645 PM CDT...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN
IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.
LAT...LON 4046 9751 4060 9753 4063 9737 4045 9737
TIME...MOT...LOC 2342Z 183DEG 14KT 4050 9741
$$
EWALDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper, Harlan, Phelps | 52 min |
| May 26, 10:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Buffalo, Dawson, Franklin, Gosper, Harlan, Kearney and 1 more | 47 min |
| May 26, 10:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Dawson | 49 min |
| May 26, 10:59 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GID | Fillmore | 12 hr |
| May 27, 4:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Thayer | 32 min |
| May 27, 4:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Nuckolls | 41 min |
| May 27, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore, Thayer | 40 min |
| May 27, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls, Thayer | 42 min |
| May 27, 5:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Fillmore, Thayer | 18 hr |
| May 27, 6:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Fillmore, Thayer | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.