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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Hastings, NE

April 13, 1986Adams County, Hall County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 13, 1986, 4:38 PM CST for Adams County, Hall County, Nebraska. It was in force for 22 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 13, 1986, 4:38 PM CST (22:38 UTC)
Expired
Apr 13, 1986, 5:00 PM CST
In force
22 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Adams County, NE, Hall 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, 10.6 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1986-04-13Temperature 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 1986-04-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 395 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGRI 132238 RRA
TORGRI
NEC001-079-132300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
438 PM CST SUN APR 13 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES 
OF


SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...NORTHERN ADAMS AND SOUTHERN HALL

AT 428PM... FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE REPORTED SOUTHWEST OF KENASAW AND NEAR
HARTWELL M8OVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF TORNADOES..LARGE HAIL..DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

DER RLT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 13, 4:21 PM CSTTornado WarningGIDBuffalo24 min
Apr 13, 5:04 PM CSTTornado WarningGIDHall, Hamilton26 min
Apr 13, 5:30 PM CSTTornado WarningGIDFillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer50 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 1986Every tornado warning in 1986Tornadoes 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.