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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Hastings, NE
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.
- 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
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
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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.