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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Hastings, NE

May 19, 1987Adams County, Hall County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 19, 1987, 6:35 PM CDT for Adams County, Hall County, Nebraska. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 19, 1987, 6:35 PM CDT (23:35 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 1987, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
25 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 12:00Z, 11.6 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 12:00Z on 1987-05-19Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1987-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 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
1336 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGRI 192335
TORGRI
NEC001-079-200000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
635 PM CDT TUE MAY 19 1987
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
          ...NORTHERN ADAMS...SOUTHERN HALL
 
AT 625 PM CDT A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC 3 WEST AND 6
MILES SOUTH OF HASTINGS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 35MPH.
 
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.

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, May 19, 5:44 PM CDT, 51 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

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.