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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Hastings, NE

June 15, 1990Greeley County, Howard County, Sherman County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jun 15, 1990, 10:55 PM CDT for Greeley County, Howard County, Sherman County, Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 1990, 10:55 PM CDT (03:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1990, 5:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Greeley County, NE, Howard County, NE, Sherman 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 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 00:00Z on 1990-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2620 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1990-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2620 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
861 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.0
Supercell composite
4.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGRI 160355
FFWGRI
NEC077-093-163-175-161000-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
FLASH FLOOD WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
1055 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
      GREELEY...HOWARD...SHERMAN...VALLEY

AT 1045 PM CDT WATER OVER THE ROADWAYS WAS REPORTED BETWEEN ORD
AND NORTH LOUP.  RAINFALL TOTALS OVER THREE INCHES HAVE BEEN REPORTED
 FROM SOUTHEAST CUSTER COUNTY AT MASON CITY TO NEAR NORTH LOUP IN
SOUTHEAST VALLEY COUNTY FROM THIS EVENINGS THUNDERSTORMS.

ANOTHER LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS DEVELOPING TO THE WEST OF THIS AREA
AND WILL BE MOVING ACROSS SATURATED GROUND.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE OVER A ROAD COVERED BY WATER.  THE ROAD
COULD BE WASHED OUT UNDER THE WATER OR YOUR 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.

What 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 15, 6:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-160045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
645 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 1990

...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR THE EASTERN 1/3RD OF NEBRASKA TONIGHT...
...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 11 PM CDT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA WEST OF
GRAND ISLAND...

AT 635 PM CDT...GRAND ISLAND RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME
SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND IN PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS.
SOME OF THESE STORMS WERE VERY STRONG AND WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN.

IN NEBRASKA...THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE WEST OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES WEST OF
NORTH PLATTE TO 10 MILES WEST OF MCCOOK.  IN KANSAS THE STORMS WERE IN A
50 MILE WIDE AREA WEST OF A LINE FROM 40 MILES EAST OF HILL CITY...TO
NEAR DODGE CITY.  ALL OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN
HOUR.

SULLIVAN
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 7:53 PM CDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-160145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
745 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 1990

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA EARLY THIS EVENING
AND THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS WERE POISED TO ENTER INTO THE
SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE.

AT 735 PM CDT...GRAND ISLAND RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS IN A 40 MILE
WIDE AREA WEST OF A LINE FROM NEAR NORTH PLATTE TO 15 MILES EAST OF
MCCOOK.  GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH A STORM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF NORTH PLATTE...AND RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE HAIL WITH THIS STORM.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

IN NORTHERN KANSAS...THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM THE
KANSAS BORDER SOUTH OF KEARNEY...TO 10 MILES WWEST OF CONCORDIA.  THESE
STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.  A STORM WITH VERY
HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL BE ROLLING
OVER THE HARLAN COUNTY RESERVOIR BETWEEN 800 AND 830 PM.  BOATERS AND
CAMPERS IN THAT AREA SHOULD STAY OUT OF THE WATER UNTIL AFTER THE
STORMS PASS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND
WESTERN NEBRASKA...AND )A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT OVERNIGHT FOR
THE EASTERN 1/3 OF THE STATE...SO KEEP ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
AND TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

SULLIVAN
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 10:49 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-160445-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
1045 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 1990

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED CONTINUED TO MOVE THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL
NEBRASKA THIS EVENING.

AT 1030 PM CDT...GRAND ISLAND RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDER-
STORMS IN IN A 30 MILE WIDE AREA FROM 15 MILES WEST OF GRAND ISLAND TO
50 MILES NORTH OF GRAND ISLAND NEAR BARTLETT.  ANOTHER STRONG THUNDER-
STORM WAS JUST EAST OF KEARNEY.  OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING
RAPIDLY IN CUSTER COUNTY NEAR BROKEN BOW.

SOME OF THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL
ALPNG WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS.  3.30 INCHES OF RAIN IN 2 HOURS WAS
REPORTED IN SOUTHEAST VALLEY COUNTY NEAR NORTH LOUP BY A COOP OBSERVER.

THESE STORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.  PERSONS IN
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE THREAT OF SEVERE
WEATHER AND WATCH FOR FLOODED ROADWAYS AND LOW LYING AREAS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND
WESTERN NEBRASKA...AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT OVERNIGHT FOR
THE EASTERN 1/3 OF THE STATE...SO KEEP ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
ANDs TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

MLG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas, Gosper34 min
Jun 15, 9:08 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDGosper22 min
Jun 15, 9:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDSherman42 min
Jun 15, 10:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGIDClay, Fillmore, Hamilton, York77 min
Jun 15, 10:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGIDThayer77 min
Jun 15, 10:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGIDValley6 hr
Jun 16, 4:20 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDFurnas, Harlan55 min
Jun 16, 5:12 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDFranklin, Harlan63 min
Jun 16, 5:21 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDGreeley, Howard, Sherman19 min
Jun 16, 6:18 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDFranklin, Harlan57 min
Jun 16, 6:46 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDBuffalo29 min
Jun 16, 6:51 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDWebster69 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.