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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1986, 3:13 PM CDT for 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 1986, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1986, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Buffalo County, NE, Hall County, NE, Howard County, NE, Sherman County, NE
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Hall, NE |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 688 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1749 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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, Jul 24, 2:55 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 250 PM CDT THU JULY 24 1986 AT 250 PM INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM THE VICINITY OF KEARNEY NORTHWARD TO NEAR PLEASANTON. THESE STORM WILL MOVE NORTH EASTWARD THROUGH EASTERN BUFFALO AND SOUTHERN SHERMAN COUNTIES BETWEEN NOW AND 3 30 PM. PERSONS IN THOSE AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE WEATHER AND LISTEN TO RADIO...TV..OR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADIO FOR THE LASTEST STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hall | 15 min |
| Jul 24, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nance | 27 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.