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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Hastings, NE

July 8, 2019Franklin County, Harlan County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 2019, 3:03 PM CDT for Franklin County, Harlan County, Nebraska. 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 8, 2019, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2019, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

Counties Franklin County, NE, Harlan County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 96 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -227 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1309 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jul 8, 12:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 12:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 8:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Clay, Dawson, Franklin, Furnas and 7 more	20 hr
Jul 8, 3:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Dawson	6 hr
Jul 8, 3:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Franklin	30 min
Jul 8, 3:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Buffalo	30 min
Jul 8, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	43 min
Jul 8, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	39 min
Jul 8, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson, Gosper	47 min
Jul 8, 4:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Webster	32 min
Jul 8, 5:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Dawson, Gosper	4 hr
Jul 8, 5:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Gosper	29 min
Jul 8, 5:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Franklin, Nuckolls, Webster	31 min
Jul 8, 5:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Kearney	25 min
Jul 8, 5:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Phelps	50 min
Jul 8, 5:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Dawson	4 hr
Jul 8, 6:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Franklin	8 hr
Jul 8, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Kearney	50 min
Jul 8, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson, Phelps	42 min
Jul 8, 6:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Webster	36 min
Jul 8, 6:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Adams, Hall, Hamilton	33 min
Jul 8, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	30 min
Jul 8, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GID	Jewell	31 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.