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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 17, 1987, 9:03 PM CDT for Clay County, Fillmore County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 1987, 9:03 PM CDT (02:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1987, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, NE, Fillmore 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 3586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 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 180203 TORGRI NEC035-059-180230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 903 PM CDT MON AUG 17 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...NORTHERN CLAY AND NORTHWEST FILLMORE AT 900 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR STOCKHAM OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRAND ISLAND MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE TOWNS OF STOCKHAM...SUTTON AND SARONVILLE. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY TO SAVE YOUR LIVES.
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, Aug 17, 6:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 635 PM CDT MON AUG 17 1987 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST GREELEY... NORTHERN HOWARD...NORTHEAST SHERMAN...AND SOUTHEAST VALLEY COUNTY UNTIL 7 PM CDT... AT 6 35 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA 35 MILES NOTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND AT THE JUNCTIONS OF GREELEY SHERMAN..HOWARD AND VALLEY COUNTIES. IT WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND MY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL. OTHER THUNDERSHOWERS WERE SCATTERED FROM CENTRAL NEBRASKA INTO THE NORTHEAST PART OF THE STATE AND IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA TO THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF HOLDRE)DGE.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Howard, Sherman | 51 min |
| Aug 17, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Hamilton, Merrick | 57 min |
| Aug 17, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Howard | 57 min |
| Aug 17, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hall | 24 min |
| Aug 17, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton | 27 min |
| Aug 17, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton | 27 min |
| Aug 17, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore | 25 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.