Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 1986, 7:04 PM CDT for Sherman County, Nebraska. It was in force for 56 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
- Sep 5, 1986, 7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 1986, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 7:05 PM CDT | Hail 3 | Sherman, 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 3588 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 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, Sep 5, 5:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 5 30 PM CDT FRI SEPT 5 1986 AT 5 30 PM CDT INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. STORMS LOCATED NEAR LEXINGTON...NEAR BROKEN BOW AND JUST NORTHEAST OF KEARNEY WERE LIKELY TO PRODUCE HAIL AND EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN AS THEY MOVE EASTWARD AT NEARLY 40 MPH. STORMS HAD ALSO BEGUN TO DEVELOP IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS JUST EAST OF RUSSELL AND 40 MILES NORTH OF RUSSELL. IN BOTH SOUTHCENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME MORE NUMEROUS DURING THE EVENING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Hall | 56 min |
| Sep 5, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Nuckolls | 61 min |
| Sep 5, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Nuckolls, Webster | 32 min |
| Sep 5, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Nuckolls, Webster | 33 min |
| Sep 5, 8:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Nuckolls, Webster | 28 min |
| Sep 5, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 25 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.