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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Hastings, NE

June 6, 1986Buffalo County, Kearney County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1986, 8:27 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Kearney County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1986, 8:27 PM CDT (01:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1986, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Buffalo County, NE, Kearney 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 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 143 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 00:00Z on 1986-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2125 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1986-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2125 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1457 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.7

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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, Jun 6, 7:44 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
730 PM CDT FRI JUN 6 1986

RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS A FEW VERY STRONG CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST
FROM WESTERN NEBRASKA INTO CENTRAL SECTIONS OF THE STATE. THE MOST
INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE THAT WAS 15 MILES WIDE
THAT EXTENDED FROM CALLAWAY TO JUST EAST OF COZAD TO STOCKVILLE THEN TO
JUST NORTH OF MCCOOK. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED WINDY GUSTS TO 50 MPH AT
GOTHENBURY EARLIER THIS EVENING AS THE LINE MOVED THROUGH THE AREA.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW VERY HEAVY WERE ALSO OCCURRING IN NORTH
CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND IN SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
STOKES

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson47 min
Jun 6, 9:24 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDAdams, Hall26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

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.