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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Hastings, NE

June 28, 1987Nance County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 1987, 6:05 PM CDT for Nance County, Nebraska. It was in force for 25 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 1987, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 1987, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Nance County, NE

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 28, 6:30 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Nance, NE

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 136 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3603 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGRI 282305
TORGRI
NEC125-282330-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
605 PM CDT SUN JUN 28 1987

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF

CENTRAL NEBRASKA...NANCE

AT 600 PM A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR 8 MILES EAST OF
WOLBACH MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

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.

DAMAGE REPORTS OF OBSERVED SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD BE GIVEN TO A LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE WEATHER SERVICE.

IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF TORNADOES... LARGE HAIL... DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	64 min
Jun 27, 11:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas, Harlan, Phelps	55 min
Jun 27, 11:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Nuckolls, Webster	29 min
Jun 28, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley, Nance	69 min
Jun 28, 6:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nance	62 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.