Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1986, 5:47 AM CDT for Nuckolls County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1986, 5:47 AM CDT (10:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1986, 6:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nuckolls 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 3550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 16, 12:42 AM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 1230 AM CDT FRI MAY 16 1986 ..SEVERE THUNDRSTORM WATCH FOR MOST OF WEST AND CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 6AM CDT.. AT 1230AM CDT THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS..NORTH ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THUNDERSTORMS WITH INTENSE RAIN WERE IN A 10 MILE WIDE LINE FROM 25 MILE SOUTH OF KEARNEY..SOUTH TO 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSSELL KANSAS. STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH PASSAGE AS THESE STORMS MOVM TO THE EAST AT 45 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT COVERED MUCH OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE AREA` WAS FROM NELIGH TO COLUMBUS..TO HEBRON TO SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA KANSAS. THE TRAILING EDGE WAS FROM AINSWORTH..TO NORTH PLATTE TO RUSSELL KANSAS. MOVMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45MPH. DER
Special weather statement, May 16, 12:45 AM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 1230 AM CDT FRI MAY 16 1986 ..SEVERE THUNDRSTORM WATCH FOR MOST OF WEST AND CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 6AM CDT.. AT 1230AM CDT THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS..NORTH ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THUNDERSTORMS WITH INTENSE RAIN WERE IN A 10 MILE WIDE LINE FROM 25 MILE SOUTH OF KEARNEY..SOUTH TO 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF RUSSELL KANSAS. STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED WITH PASSAGE AS THESE STORMS MOVMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 45 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT COVERED MUCH OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE LEADING EDGE ObF THE AREA WAS FROM NELIGH TO COLUMBUS..TO HEBRON TO SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA KANSAS. THE TRAILING EDGE WAS FROM AINSWORTH..TO NORTH PLATTE TO RUSSELL KANSAS. MOVMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45MPH. DER
Special weather statement, May 16, 1:39 AM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 130 AM CDT FRI MAY 16 1986 ..SEVERE THUNDRSTORM WATCH FOR CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 6AM CDT.. AT 130AM CDT THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED FROM NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS..NORTH ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EAST NEBRASKA. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE SCATTERED IN A 10 MILE WIDE LINE FROM 40 MILES NORTH OF RUSSELL KANSAS..TO SOUTH OF HASTINGS..THEN NORTHWEST MIDWAY BETWEEN KEARNEY AND GRAND ISLAND TO SOUTHEAST OF BROKEN BOW. THE HEAVIEST STORMS WERE JUST NORTHEAST OF KEARNEY..NORTH WEST OF SUPERIOR AND 10 TO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SMITH CENTER KANSAS. THEY WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT WAS WEST OF A LINE FROM YANKTON SOUTH DAKOTA..TO COLUMBUS..TO CONCORDIA KANSAS. THE TRAILING EDGE WAS FROM AINSWORTH..TO GOTHENBURG..TO HILL CITY KANSAS. MOVMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45MPH. DER
Special weather statement, May 16, 4:49 AM CDT, 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 430 AM CDT FRI MAY 16 1986 ..SEVERE THUNDRSTORM WATCH FOR CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 6AM CDT.. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...LIKELY PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL... WERE INTENSIFYING IN NORTHERN KANSAS...30 MILES NORTHEAST OF HILL CITY ...JUST SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA...AND ABOUT 30 MILES EAST OF CONCORDIA. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WAS EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAD WEAKENED SLIGHTLY IN NEBRASKA AND COVERED MOST OF THE STATE TO THE EAST OF A LINE FROM ONEILL TO NORTH PLATTE AND MCCOOK. THE EASTERN EDGE OF THIS LARGE PATTERN WAS ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF OMAHA. MOVE%MENT OF THUNDERSTORMS IN NEBRASKA WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. DAVIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 5:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 58 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.