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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 15, 1990, 9:08 PM CDT for Gosper County, Nebraska. It was in force for 22 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1990, 9:08 PM CDT (02:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1990, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Gosper 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KGRI 160208
TORGRI
NEC073-160230-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
908 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
SOUTHERN GOSPER
AT 904 PM CDT...TWO TORNADOES WERE REPORTED ON THE GROUND 35 MILES
NORTHEAST OF MCCOOK IN GALLAGHER CANYON IN SOUTHWEST GOSPER COUNTY.
THE TORNADOES WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT
OR BELOW GROUND. OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED
BUILDING.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE OPEN...TRY TO HIDE IN A DEPRESSION SUCH
AS A DITCH OR CULVERT.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 2 hours 21 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, 1 hour 15 minutes before
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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper | 34 min |
| Jun 15, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman | 42 min |
| Jun 15, 10:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore, Hamilton, York | 77 min |
| Jun 15, 10:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Thayer | 77 min |
| Jun 15, 10:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Greeley, Howard, Sherman | 6 hr |
| Jun 15, 10:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Valley | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Furnas, Harlan | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 5:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Franklin, Harlan | 63 min |
| Jun 16, 5:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Greeley, Howard, Sherman | 19 min |
| Jun 16, 6:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Franklin, Harlan | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo | 29 min |
| Jun 16, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Webster | 69 min |
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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.