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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Hastings, NE

May 10, 1986Buffalo County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 10, 1986, 3:27 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 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: May 10, 1986, 3:27 PM CDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 1986, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Buffalo 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
May 10, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Buffalo, 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 132 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2296 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGRI 102027
TORGRI
NEC019-102100-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
327 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF

SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...EASTERN BUFFALO

AT 325 PM CDT A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY THE POLICE 3 SOUTH OF KEARNEY
NEB.  MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH

PERSONS IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR.  CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED.

PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY
TO SAVE Y(OUR LIVES.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE OPEN..TRY TO HIDE IN A DEPRESSION LIKE
A DITCH OR CULVERT.

TIGNOR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 3:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Kearney	25 min
May 10, 4:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Buffalo, Sherman	34 min
May 10, 4:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Buffalo	28 min
May 10, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	99 min
May 10, 6:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Buffalo, Kearney, Phelps	26 min
May 10, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Phelps	42 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 1986 Every tornado warning in 1986 Tornadoes in 1986

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.