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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Hastings, NE

June 12, 1990Kearney County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 1990, 6:58 PM CDT for Kearney County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 min. 2 reports 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, 6:58 PM CDT (23:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 1990, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Kearney 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, 7:04 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Kearney, NE
Jun 12, 7:15 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Kearney, 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 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2358 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGRI 122358
TORGRI
NEC099-130030-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
658 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
      KEARNEY

AT 655 PM A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR 5 MILES SOUTH OF
AXTELL NEBRASKA...OR 25 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF KEARNEY.
THE TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
THE TORNADO WAS MOVING TOWARDS AXTELL AND MINDEN NEBRASKA.

PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY
TO SAVE YOUR LIVES.

IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE LIKLEY WITH THIS STORM.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin, Harlan	42 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 1990 Every tornado warning in 1990 Tornadoes 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.