Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 13, 1986, 4:21 PM CST for Buffalo County, Nebraska. It was in force for 24 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
- Apr 13, 1986, 4:21 PM CST (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 1986, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 4:32 PM CST | 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, 10.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 395 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 523 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRI 132221 RRA TORGRI NEC019-099-132245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 421 PM CST SUN APR 13 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...EASTERN BUFFALO AND NORTHERN KEARNEY AT 413PM... A FUNNEL WAS REPORTED 3 MILES WEST AND 2 MILES NORTH OF MINDEN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. 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. DER RLT
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Apr 13, 3:38 PM CST, 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 330 PM CST SUN APR 13 1986 ...TORNADO WARTCH MUCH OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND ALL OF CENTRAL KANSAS UNTIL 9PM CDT... AT 330 PM CST THUNDERSTORMS HAD INCREASED OVER WEST CENTRAL AND WERE MOVING INTO CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE 10 TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF BROKEN BOW..THIS STORM WILL BE MOVING INTO MILLER AROUND 345PM. MILLER IS ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF KEARNEY. IT WILL BRING HEAVY RAIN..AND HAIL WITH PASSAGE. ANOTHER THUNDER STORM WITH HEAVY RAIN AND MARBLE SIZED HAIL WAS AT OVERTON WHICH IS 30 MILES WEST OF KEARNEY. THESE STORMS WERE PART O?F A 70 MILE WIDE AREA FROM SOUTH OF AINSWORTH..SOUTH TO NEAR HILL CITY KANSAS. MOVMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35MPH. DER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 4:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | GID | Adams, Hall | 22 min |
| Apr 13, 5:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | GID | Hall, Hamilton | 26 min |
| Apr 13, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer | 50 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.