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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Hastings, NE

March 20, 1987Adams County, Hall County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 20, 1987, 6:22 PM CST for Adams County, Hall County, Nebraska. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 20, 1987, 6:22 PM CST (00:22 UTC)
Expired
Mar 20, 1987, 7:20 PM CST
In force
58 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 00:00Z, 0.4 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 00:00Z on 1987-03-21Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1987-03-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -194 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
1191 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 20, 6:22 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHoward58 min
Mar 20, 6:37 PM CSTTornado WarningGIDAdams, Hall23 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.