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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1990, 10:41 PM CDT for Howard County, Nebraska. It was in force for 34 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
- Jun 12, 1990, 10:41 PM CDT (03:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1990, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Howard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Howard, 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 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 3137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 12, 10:25 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 1025 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 1990 CIVIL DEFENSE AT LOUP CITY...IN SHERMAN COUNTY NEBRASKA...HAD A REPORT FROM A SPOTTER 10 MILES SOUTH OF LOUP CITY OF HAILC MARBLE TO GOLFBALL SIZE IN DRIFTS...NO SIZE OF DRIFTS. REPORT WAS AT 1023 PM. DGS
Local storm report, Jun 12, 10:31 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 1031 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 1990 1030 PM CDT STORM SPOTTER AT ROCKVILLE IN SOUTHEAST SHERMAN COUNTY NEBRASKA REPORTED HAIL MARBLE TO NEAR GOLFBALL SIZE COKVERING THE GROUND. VERY HEAVY RAIN BUT NO AMOUNT YET MEASURED. DGS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Hall | 25 min |
| Jun 12, 8:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Merrick, Nance | 39 min |
| Jun 12, 9:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 22 min |
| Jun 12, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley, Howard, Sherman | 54 min |
| Jun 12, 9:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson | 33 min |
| Jun 12, 10:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo, Howard, Sherman | 43 min |
| Jun 12, 10:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Nance | 53 min |
| Jun 12, 10:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Howard, Merrick | 39 min |
| Jun 12, 11:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Merrick | 35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.