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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Sep 18, 1986, 11:54 PM CDT for Hamilton County, Merrick County, Nebraska. It was in force for 21 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 18, 1986, 11:54 PM CDT (04:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 1986, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hamilton County, NE, Merrick 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRI 190457 COR TORGRI NEC081-121-190515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 1154 PM CDT THU SEP 18 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...NORTHWEST HAMILTON AND SOUTHWEST MERRICK AT 1150 PM A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR JUST NORTH OF PHILLIPS AND WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND TOWARD CHAPMAN NEBRASKA. 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 YOUR LIVES. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST CLAY AND SOUTHERN HAMILTON COUNTY. DER/DGS
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, Sep 18, 7:56 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 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, 3 hours 3 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, 2 hours 42 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
Local storm report, Sep 18, 10:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 1030 PM CDT THU SEP 18 1986 A TORNADO STRUCK THE SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA TOWN OF HARDY APPROX 810 PM THURSDAY EVENING. HARDY IS IN THE SOUTHEAST TIP OF NUCKOLLS COUNTY. THE TORNADO WENT DOWN THE MAIN STREET... SEVERAL HOUSES AND BUSINESS WERE DAMAGED AS WERE POWER LINES. THE TORNADO THEN TURNED SOUTHEAST AND WENT INTO KANSAS WHERE IT STRUCK A FARM CAUSING DAMAGE. ONE INJURY WAS REPORTED IN HARDY. 1032 PM CDT ADAMS COUNTY CD REPORTS HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE AT HOLSTEIN AND MOST OF ADAMS COUNTY REPORTING MARBLE SIZE HAIL. WIND GUSTS 35 TO 40 MPH EAST OF HASTINGS AT 1020 PM. DGS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 8:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Nuckolls, Thayer | 28 min |
| Sep 18, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton, York | 62 min |
| Sep 18, 8:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Nuckolls, Thayer | 36 min |
| Sep 18, 9:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton, York | 26 min |
| Sep 18, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay | 56 min |
| Sep 18, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Hall, Hamilton | 60 min |
| Sep 18, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Hall, Howard | 58 min |
| Sep 18, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman | 58 min |
| Sep 18, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Hamilton | 61 min |
| Sep 18, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Clay, Hamilton | 30 min |
| Sep 19, 1:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Merrick, Polk | 30 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.