Alert archive / Nebraska / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 1990, 3:43 AM CDT for 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1990, 3:43 AM CDT (08:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1990, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE, Howard 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 3606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 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 150843
FFWGRI
NEC079-081-093-121-151100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
343 AM CDT FRI JUN 15 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
NORTHERN HALL...NORTHERN HAMILTON...
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
HOWARD...MERRICK...
AT 335 AM CDT...VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE OCCURRING FROM 25 MILES WEST-
NORTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND...THROUGH GRAND ISLAND...TO NEAR AURORA
IN A 30 MILE WIDE AREA. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS SHOWING LITTLE
MOVEMENT...AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL TOTALS WERE ACCUMULATING. OVER
2 1/4 INCHES OF RAIN FELL AT THE WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE AT THE
CENTRAL NEBRASKA REGIONAL AIRPORT IN JUST 45 MINUTES. ALL OF THE
UNDERPASSES IN GRAND ISLAND HAVE BEEN CLOSED BY THE FLOODWATERS.
PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREA...ESPECIALLY CAMPERS...SHOULD SEEK HIGHER
GROUND WITHOUT DELAY. MOTORISTS SHOULD USE CAUTION IN APPROACHING
LOW AREAS OF ROADS.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE OVER A ROAD COVERED BY WATER. THE ROAD
COULD BE WASHED OUT UNDER THE WATER OR YcOUR CAR COULD BE SWEEP
AWAY IF THE WATER IS FLOWING SWIFTLY.
PERSONS NEAR STREAMS OR LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD NOT WASTE TIME TRYING
TO SAVE PERSONAL PROPERTY...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
JMK/JBSWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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, Jun 14, 9:47 PM CDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-150345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 945 PM CDT THU JUN 14 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA TONIGHT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEBRASKA UNTIL 3AM CDT... THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WERE MOVING THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. AT 930 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HASTINGS AND NORTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND NEAR GREELEY. OTHER THUNDERSHOWERS AND LIGHT RAINSHOWERS WERE IN A 40 MILE WIDE AREA FROM 20 MILES EAST OF BROKEN BOW TO 25 MILES WEST OF LINCOLN. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS...LIKELY PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL WERE LOCATED 15 MILES WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF NORFOLK AND 15 MILES WEST OF SIOUX CITY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 TO 30 MPH. MLG
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 10:46 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-150435- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 1045 PM CDT THU JUN 14 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA TONIGHT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEBRASKA UNTIL 3AM CDT... COLUMBUS NEBRASKA...55 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRAND ISLAND...REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL EAST OF THAT CITY AND WATER OVER HIWAY 81 IN THE VICINITY OF COLUMBUS AT 1035 PM. AT 1025 PM THE RADAR AT GRAND ISLAND SHOWED THE MOST INTENSE THUNDER- STORM JUST EAST OF COLUMBUS...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH...TOWARD SCHUYLER AND NORTH BEND. OTHERWISE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER NORTHEAST NEBRASKA... MOSTLY FROM MIDWAY OF AINSWORTH AND O NEILL TO BETWEEN NORFOLK AND COLUMBUS TO SIOUX CITY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING FROM AROUND ALBION TO COLUMBUS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED AROUND OMAHA IN EASTERN NEBRASKA SOUTH INTO NORTHEST KANSAS. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE NORTH OF SALINA KANSAS...AND IN SOUTHERN NEBRASKA NORTH OF SUPERIOR. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST 35 MPH. DGS
Special weather statement, Jun 14, 11:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-150545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 1145 PM CDT THU JUN 14 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE EASTERN 1/3RD OF NEBRASKA TONIGHT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEBRASKA UNTIL 3AM CDT... THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH DOWNPOURS OF RAIN...CONTINUE OVER NORTHEAST INTO EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA. STRONG GUSTY WIND AND HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE IN THESE STORMS. AT 1130 PM RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER MUCH OF THE AREA FROM O NEILL TO COLUMBUS TO MIDWAY OF SIOUX CITY AND OMAHA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE MOST INTENSE STORMS WERE CLUSTERED AROUND COLUMBUS A]ND SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST OF O NEILL. IN KANSAS ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING TO THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST OF CONCORDIA...AND NORTHWEST OF SALINA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. DGS
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 12:45 AM CDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-150645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 1245 AM CDT FRI JUN 15 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE EASTERN 1/3RD OF NEBRASKA TONIGHT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEBRASKA UNTIL 3AM CDT... THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS...WERE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEBRASKA EARLY THIS MORNING. AT 1230 AM CDT...RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED TO THE NORTH OF A LINE FROM 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND...TO 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRAND ISLAND...TO 50 MILES EAST OF OMAHA. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN THIS AREA WERE 25 MILES NORTH-NORTHEAST AND 30 MILES NORTH- NORTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND...AS WELL AS 35 MILES WEST OF NORFOLK AND 10 MILES EAST OF COLUMBUS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. SULLIVAN
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 1:47 AM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-150745- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 145 AM CDT FRI JUN 15 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE EASTERN 1/3RD OF NEBRASKA TONIGHT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEBRASKA UNTIL 3AM CDT... THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS... CONTINUED ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEBRASKA EARLY THIS MORNING. AT 130 AM CDT...RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED TO THE NORTH OF A LINE FROM NEAR KEARNEY TO NEAR LINCOLN...TO 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF OMAHA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SITUATED IN TWO 15 MILE-WIDE LINES EXTENDING FROM NEAR AINSWORTH TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF OMAHA...AND FROM 15 MILES NORTH OF BROKEN BOW TO NEAR COLUMBUS. A FEW OTHER STORMS WERE FROM JUST NORTHWEST OF KEARNEY TO 20 MILES WEST OF GRAND ISALND. ALL OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. . IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM ALL WINDOWS. SULLIVAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Polk | 21 min |
| Jun 15, 2:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Howard | 41 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Nebraska, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
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.