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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Hastings, NE

May 22, 1989Adams County, Clay County, Hall County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 22, 1989, 8:33 PM CDT for Adams County, Clay County, Hall County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 1989, 8:33 PM CDT (01:33 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 1989, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Adams County, NE, Clay 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 183 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1989-05-23Temperature 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1989-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 14 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
3545 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 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
May 22, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHall27 min
May 22, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Clay, Nuckolls55 min
May 22, 9:23 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDAdams, Clay37 min
May 22, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDNuckolls60 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.