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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Hastings, NE

June 7, 1989Buffalo County, Hall County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1989, 6:16 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Hall County, Nebraska. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1989, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1989, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Buffalo 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 1989-06-07Temperature 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 1989-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1089 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
98 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 072316
TORGRI
NEC019-079-072345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
616 PM CDT WED JUN 7 1989

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
      EXTREME EASTERN BUFFALO...WESTERN HALL

AT 615 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST NORTH OF
SHELTON MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH.
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE TOWNS OF SHELTON AND GIBBON.

PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY
TO SAVE YOUR LIVES.

 DER/JMK

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

Local storm report, Jun 7, 5:29 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
528 PM CDT WED JUN 7 1989

500 PM CDT GRAIN BINS DAMAGED AT TRUMBULL NEBRASKA IN NORTHWEST CLAY
COUNTY NEBRASKA... ALSO DAMAGE TO A SCHOOL BUT NO INJU^RIES.

510 PM CDT WALNUT SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY STATE PATROL AT MILE MARKER
348 ON INTERSTATE 80... APPROXIMATELY MIDWAY OF YORK AND HENDERSON
IN YORK COUNTY.
DGS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 4:32 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDAdams28 min
Jun 7, 5:09 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDAdams, Clay, Hall, Hamilton36 min
Jun 7, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Franklin, Kearney, Webster58 min
Jun 7, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHall59 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.