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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Hastings, NE

September 18, 1986Adams County, Clay County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 18, 1986, 9:19 PM CDT for Adams County, Clay County, Nebraska. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 18, 1986, 9:19 PM CDT (02:19 UTC)
Expired
Sep 18, 1986, 10:15 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Adams County, NE, Clay 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 183 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 1986-09-19Temperature 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 1986-09-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3587 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
278 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 18, 7:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
745PM CDT THU SEP 18 1986

AT 745 PM INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS HAD FORMED RAPIDLY OVER EXTREME
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA.

THEY WERE IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST NUCKOLLS AND SOUTHWEST THAYER COUNTY TO
THE EAST OF SUPERIOR AND SOUTHWEST OF HEBRON.  THEY CONTAINED INTENSE
RAIN ALONG WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF HAIL.  THEY WERE MOVING NORTH NORTH
EAST AT 25M)PH.

ANOTHER AREA OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM JUST WEST OF BEATRICE..
EAST ACROSS THE BEATRICE AREA TO ABOUT 25 MILES EAST OF THAT CITY.
THEY WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25MPH.
DER
Local storm report, Sep 18, 8:51 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
850 PM CDT THU SEP 18 1986

AT 850 PM A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED JUST EAST OF CHESTER NEBRASKA
IN THAYER COUNTY.
DGS
Local storm report, Sep 18, 9:12 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
911 PM CDT THU SEP 18 1986

AT 910 PM A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED 3 MILES EAST OF STOCKHAM NEBR.
WHICH IS IN THE SOUTHEAST TIP OF HAMILTON COUNTY.
DGCS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 18, 8:07 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDNuckolls, Thayer28 min
Sep 18, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHamilton, York62 min
Sep 18, 8:39 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDNuckolls, Thayer36 min
Sep 18, 9:09 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDHamilton, York26 min
Sep 18, 10:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Clay, Hall, Hamilton60 min
Sep 18, 11:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Hall, Howard58 min
Sep 18, 11:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDSherman58 min
Sep 18, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Clay, Hamilton61 min
Sep 18, 11:30 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDClay, Hamilton30 min
Sep 18, 11:54 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDHamilton, Merrick21 min
Sep 19, 1:00 AM CDTTornado WarningGIDMerrick, Polk30 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.