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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Hastings, NE

May 10, 1986Kearney County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 10, 1986, 3:35 PM CDT for Kearney County, Nebraska. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1986, 3:35 PM CDT (20:35 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1986, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Kearney 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 155 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1986-05-10Temperature 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1986-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
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 102035
TORGRI
NEC099-102100-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
335 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...NORTHERN KEARNEY

AT 330 PM CDT NUMEROUS FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC
JUST NORTH OF MINDEN NEBRASKA 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.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE OPEN..TRY TO HIDE IN A DEP0RESSION LIKE
A DITCH OR CULVERT.

TIGNOR

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 3:27 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDBuffalo33 min
May 10, 4:06 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDBuffalo, Sherman34 min
May 10, 4:47 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDBuffalo28 min
May 10, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo99 min
May 10, 6:04 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDBuffalo, Kearney, Phelps26 min
May 10, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Phelps42 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.