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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Hastings, NE

May 28, 1989Hamilton County, Merrick County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1989, 9:55 PM CDT for Hamilton County, Merrick County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 28, 1989, 9:55 PM CDT (02:55 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1989, 10:45 PM CDT
In force: 50 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, 2.9 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-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: 3613 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 206 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 259 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.

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 28, 6:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
638 PM CDT SUN MAY 28 1989

... A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES UNITL 1000 PM FOR PORTIONS OF
CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS...

AT 634 PM A THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KEARNEY
NEBRASKA AND WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH.

THIS STORM WAS STILL GROWING BUT HAS INDICATIONS OF BRIEF HEAVY
RAIN AND SOME SMALL HAIL.  THE STORM WAS ON A TRACK THAT WILL
TAKE IT TOWARD KEARNEY BY A LITTLE AFTER 700 PM.

IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED REPORT IT TO YOUR NEAREST LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY SO IT CAN BE RELAYED TO THE WEATHER SERVICE.
DGS

Local storm report, May 28, 7:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
748 PM CDT MAY 28 1989

STORM REPORTS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

740 PM 2E AND 1S SHELTON PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
740 PM 2W KENESAW MARBLE SIZE HAIL
747 PM KEARNEY MARBLE SIZE HAIL
DGS

Local storm report, May 28, 8:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
815 PM CDT MAY 28 1989

STORM REPORTS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

807 PM STORM SPOTTER 23 MILES SOUTHWEST GRAND ISLAND PEA SIZE HAIL
811 PM 6 MILES SOUTH GIBBON AT 700 PM 5 MINS OF GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
STONG WIND BUT NO DAMAGE RAINFALL .45 INCH.
814 PM FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED 8 TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF HASTINGS
DGS

Local storm report, May 28, 9:16 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
915 PM CDT MAY 28 1989

STORM REPORTS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

DELAYED REPORT FROM 745 PM THIS SUNDAY EVENING.
WINDMILL STATE RECREATION AREA NEAR I80 AND GIBBON NEBRASKA
OR AROUND 30 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND.
LOTS OF 1 1/2 TO 2 INCH HAIL... LOTS OF MOTOR VEHICLE DAMAGE.
DGS

Local storm report, May 28, 9:34 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams, Buffalo, Hall, Kearney	57 min
May 28, 7:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Adams, Hall	46 min
May 28, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nance	65 min
May 28, 8:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Adams, Hall	67 min
May 28, 9:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Hall	65 min
May 28, 10:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk, York	57 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.