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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Hastings, NE

March 22, 1987Hamilton County, Merrick County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 22, 1987, 9:18 PM CST for Hamilton County, Merrick County, Nebraska. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 22, 1987, 9:18 PM CST (03:18 UTC)
Expired
Mar 22, 1987, 10:15 PM CST
In force
57 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, 3.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1987-03-23Temperature 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1987-03-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 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
3507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
178 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 22, 7:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDNuckolls, Thayer50 min
Mar 22, 7:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDNuckolls, Thayer57 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.