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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Hastings, NE

September 5, 1986Nuckolls County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 5, 1986, 9:20 PM CDT for Nuckolls County, Nebraska. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 5, 1986, 9:20 PM CDT (02:20 UTC)
Expired
Sep 5, 1986, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Nuckolls 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, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 190 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 1986-09-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1986-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 83 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
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

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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, Sep 5, 5:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 40 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 5, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Hall56 min
Sep 5, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDSherman56 min
Sep 5, 7:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Clay, Nuckolls61 min
Sep 5, 7:43 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDAdams, Clay, Nuckolls, Webster32 min
Sep 5, 8:12 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDNuckolls, Webster33 min
Sep 5, 8:47 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDNuckolls, Webster28 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.