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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Hastings, NE

June 29, 1986Fillmore County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1986, 11:50 PM CDT for Fillmore County, Nebraska. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 1986, 11:50 PM CDT (04:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 1986, 12:45 AM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Fillmore 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 136 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 1986-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 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 1986-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 119 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
262 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, Jun 29, 6:41 PM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
630 PM CDT SUN JUN 29 1986

......TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 10 PM FOR PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTH
EASTERN NEBRASKA.....

AT 6 30PM CDT VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH NORTH
CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.

THERE WERE IN A 50 MILES WIDE AREA THAT EXTENDED FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF
SIOUX CITY IOWA SOUTHWEST THROUGH ONEILL TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF AINSWORTH.
VERY HEAVY RAIN..HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED THE THIS AREA.
THEY WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND
NORTHWEST KANSAS. IN NEBRASKA HAEY WERE SLOWInNG DISIPATING..BUT IN NORTH
WEST KANSAS THEY WERE GETTING A LITTLE STRONGER.  THEY WERE MOVING EAST
AT 20 MPH.
OEB
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 11:42 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHamilton, Polk, York65 min
Jun 29, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHoward, Merrick65 min
Jun 29, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPolk64 min
Jun 29, 9:08 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDPolk27 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.