Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1987, 7:09 PM CDT for Clay County, Hamilton County, Nebraska. It was in force for 66 min. 2 reports 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 19, 1987, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1987, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, NE, Hamilton 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 19, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Clay, NE | |
| May 19, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Hamilton, 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 3590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, May 19, 5:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE GRAND ISLAND NE 540 PM CDT TUE MAY 19 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTHERN AND EASTERN NEBRASKA AND NORTHERN KANSAS UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT... AT 540 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER SOUTHERN NEBRASKA AND NORTHERN KANSAS. THEY WERE MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE PLATTE RIVER FROM EAST OF NORTH PLATTE TO COLUMBUS. THE MAIN AREA WAS BETWEEN LEXINGTON AND KEARNEY AND EXTENDED SOUTHEAST ACROSS HILDRITH..CAMPBELL..AND FRANKLIN TO CONCORDIA KANSAS. THUNDERSTORMS WITH INTENSE RAIN WERE JUST NORTH OF SMITH CENTER KANSAS AND NORTHEAST OF FRANKLIN NEBRASKA. ONE STORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS JUST NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA...AND ANOTHER WAS JUST SOUTHWEST OF COLUMBUS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SPREADING TO THE NORTH AT 40MPH. DER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 7:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Clay, Hamilton | 26 min |
| May 19, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton | 22 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987
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.