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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 1989, 6:44 PM CDT for Furnas County, Gosper County, Phelps County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 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
- Apr 23, 1989, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 1989, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Furnas County, NE, Gosper County, NE, Phelps 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Furnas, 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 3370 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 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 232344
TORGRI
NEC065-073-137-240015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
644 PM CDT SUN APR 23 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
NORTHERN FURNAS...GOSPER...PHELPS
AT 640 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR ARAPOHOE
MOVING SLOWLY NORTH NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY
TO SAVE YOUR LIVES.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE OPEN... TRY TO HIDE IN A DEPRESSION SUCH
AS A DITCH OR CULVERT.
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
Special weather statement, Apr 23, 5:56 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 555 PM CDT SUN APR 23 1989 AT 550 PM CDT A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED RAPIDLY IN FURNAS COUNTY OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ARAPAHOE AND APPEARED TO BE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST. SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES NORTHEASTWARD. JMK4
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Furnas | 26 min |
| Apr 23, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Harlan, Phelps | 26 min |
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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.