Alert archive / Nebraska / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 1990, 5:36 PM CDT for Clay County, Fillmore County, Nebraska. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 1990, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1990, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, NE, Fillmore 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 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 3629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 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 192236
FFWGRI
NEC035-059-200130-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
536 PM CDT THU JUL 19 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
NORTHERN CLAY...NORTHWEST FILLMORE
AT 515 PM CDT...REPORTS OF FLASH FLOODING CONTINUED FROM NORTHEAST
CLAY AND NORTHWEST FILLMORE COUNTIES. HIGHWAY 6 WAS UNDER WATER NEAR
GRAFTON...ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRAND ISLAND. OTHER ROADS IN
THE GRAFTON AREA HAVE BEEN CLOSED BY HIGH WATER AS WELL. SCHOOL
CREEK WAS FLOODING NEAR SUTTON...25 MILES EAST OF HASTINGS...WHERE 5
TO 7 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN. HARVARD...ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF
HASTINGS...HAS ALSO REPORTED FLOODING. THOUGH MOST OF THE RAIN IS
OVER...FLOOD WATERS WILL CONTINUE TO RISE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.
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 YOUR CAR COULD BE SWEEP
AWAY IF THE WATER IS FLOWING SWIFTLY.
MLG/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, Jul 19, 1:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before
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
Local storm report, Jul 19, 2:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 215 PM CDT THU JUL 19 1990 A STORM SPOTTER 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF SUTTON IN NORTHEAST CLAY COUNTY NEBRASKS REPORTED OVER 6 INCHES OF RAIN TODAY. MOST aOF THAT RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE NOON. AT NOON 1.70 INCHES WAS RECORDED...OVER 4.30 INCHES HAS FALLEN SINCE NOON. DGS
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 2:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-192045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 245 PM CDT THU JUL 19 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR NORTHEAST CLAY AND NORTHWEST FILLMORE COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASLA UNTIL 515 PM... AT 230 PM THE LATEST ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT HAS BROUGHT STREET FLOODING TO SUTTON NEBRASKA...AND CAUSED THE ISSUANCE OF A FLASH FLOOD WARNING...WAS OVER NORTHWEST FILLMORE COUNTY AND WAS MOVING OFF SLOWLY TO THE EAST. AT 245 PM SUTTON NEBRASKA REPORTS 5 TO 6 FEET OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS...WATER IN BASEMENTS...AND EVACUATION OF SOME HOUSES. OTHERWISE THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM NORTHWEST KANSAS INTO SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA...AND ALSO OVER CENTRAL AND NORTH- EAST NEBRASKA. STORMS WITH HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE NEAR SUPERIOR NEBRASKA AND NORTH OF PHILLIPSBURG KANSAS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. STORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE NORTH OF KEARNEY AND JUST NORTHEAST AT BURWELL NEBRASKA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. DGS
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 3:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-192100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 310 PM CDT THU JUL 19 1990 NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED AT THE GRAND ISLAND WEATHER OFFICE SINCE 230 PM...IN AREAS OF WESTERN HOWARD COUNTY AND NORTHWEST HALL COUNTY TO THE WEST AND NORTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND. RADAR AT GRAND ISLAND SHOWS NO INDICATION OF TORNADIC ACTIVITY IN THAT AREA...AND THE REPORTS ARE ATTRIBUTTED TO LOW HANGING CLOUDS AROUND THUNDERSTORMS IN THAT AREA. DGS
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 3:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-192145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 345 PM CDT THU JUL 19 1990 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN NORTHEAST CLAY AND NORTHWEST FILLMORE COUNTIES OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA MAINLY ALONG SCHOOL CREEK... AT 330 PM THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED AND MOVED EAST OUT OF THE FLASH FLOOD AREA...BUT MORE THUNDERSTORMS WERE 25 TO 30 MILES WEST OF THE AREA MOVING TO THE EAST. HOWEVER THESE STORMS ARE NOT AS HEAVY AS THOSE THAT CAUSED THE FLOODING AT SUTTON NEBRASKA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. RAINFALL OF 5 TO 7 INCHES WAS REPORTED UP TO 330 PM IN THE SUTTON AREA. THUNDERSTORMS SND RAINSHOWERS CONTINUED OVER SECTIONS OF EAST AND SOUTH NEBRASKA INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS AT 330 PM...BUT MANY OF THE STORMS HAVE DECREASED IN INTENSITY. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS IN THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST NEBRASKA...NORTH OF NORFOLK TO WEST OF SIOUX CITY. T HUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE ALONG THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA BORDER SOUTHEAST OF SUPERIOR NEBRASKA...AND SOUTH OF ARAPAHOE NEBRASKA. ALL PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. DGS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 2:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore | 3 hr |
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.