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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Hastings, NE

May 10, 1986Buffalo County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1986, 5:21 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Nebraska. It was in force for 99 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1986, 5:21 PM CDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1986, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
99 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Buffalo County, NE

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 132 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1986-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1986-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2296 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 10, 5:03 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
500 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 1986

A LINE OF VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO DEVELOP AND SPREAD
ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 45 MILES NORTH OF GRAND
ISLAND TO 25 MILES WEST OF GRAND ISLAND THEN TO JUST SOUTH OF KEARNEY
NEB.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 15 PM CDT FOR PERSONS IN
EASTERN BUFFALO COUNTY IN NEBRASKA.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 11 PM
CDT THIS SATURDAY EVENING.
THESE STORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR
NO ADVANCE WARNING.. BE ON THE LOOKOUT.
MLT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 3:27 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDBuffalo33 min
May 10, 3:35 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDKearney25 min
May 10, 4:06 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDBuffalo, Sherman34 min
May 10, 4:47 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDBuffalo28 min
May 10, 6:04 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDBuffalo, Kearney, Phelps26 min
May 10, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Phelps42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.