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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 1986, 1:03 AM CDT for Nuckolls County, Webster County, Nebraska. It was in force for 57 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
- Aug 7, 1986, 1:03 AM CDT (06:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1986, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Nuckolls County, NE, Webster 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 1:30 AM CDT | Hail 3 | Webster, 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 3611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 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, Aug 6, 7:52 PM CDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 730 PM CDT WED AUG 6 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 10 PM CDT.. A SUPER THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA IN SOUTHEAST CHERRY AND SOUTHWEEST CORNERN OF BROWN COUNTIES. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AND PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE SHELTER. THIS STORMS WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 30 TO 35 MPH AND WILL BE ENTERING WESTERN BLAINE AND EASTERN THOMAS COUNTIES BY 8 PM CDT. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALSO CONTINUE OVER PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA ALSO NORTHWEST KANSAS. IN NEBRASKA THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE LOCATED NORTH OF A LINE THAT RAN FROM OMAHA TO MULLEN NEB. MOVING THE THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. IN KANSAS SHOWERS AND A FEW INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS IN AN AREA 50 MILES ACROSS WITH THE CENTER LOCATED 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF HILL CITY. THE INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BETWEEN MC COOK NEB. AND HILL CITY KS. ALSO 40 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF HILL CITY KS. MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND SOME HAIL. MLT
Special weather statement, Aug 6, 10:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick, Polk | 55 min |
| Aug 6, 9:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | York | 55 min |
| Aug 6, 10:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson | 112 min |
| Aug 7, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay | 60 min |
| Aug 7, 1:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay | 53 min |
| Aug 7, 2:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Nuckolls, Webster | 59 min |
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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.