Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 2016
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2016, 6:41 PM CDT for Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 34 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 8, 2016, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2016, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.75 in
County Rooks County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 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 8, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 2934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
720
WFUS53 KGID 082341
TORGID
KSC163-090015-
/O.NEW.KGID.TO.W.0006.160508T2341Z-160509T0015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
641 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WESTERN ROOKS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 641 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED OVER PALCO...OR 38 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PHILLIPSBURG...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 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 DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
PALCO AROUND 645 PM CDT.
DAMAR AND ZURICH AROUND 650 PM CDT.
WEBSTER STATE PARK AROUND 705 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 3914 9961 3954 9960 3942 9929 3913 9952
3913 9959
TIME...MOT...LOC 2341Z 221DEG 30KT 3923 9960
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.75IN
$$
HEINLEINThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 43 min |
| May 7, 11:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Smith | 42 min |
| May 7, 11:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Smith | 28 min |
| May 8, 6:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Phillips | 48 min |
| May 8, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 25 min |
| May 8, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 52 min |
| May 8, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 48 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Kansas, 2016Every tornado warning in 2016Tornadoes in 2016
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.