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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Hastings, NE

May 16, 1986Nuckolls County, Nebraska

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1986-05-16Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1986-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -45 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 5:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDNuckolls58 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.