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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Hastings, NE

June 28, 1989Valley County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 1989, 12:39 PM CDT for Valley County, Nebraska. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 28, 1989, 12:39 PM CDT (17:39 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 1989, 1:15 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Valley 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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 144 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 1989-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1949 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1989-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1949 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-192 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
997 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 12:05 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDValley25 min
Jun 28, 1:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDSherman, Valley69 min
Jun 28, 2:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson66 min
Jun 28, 3:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Dawson22 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.