Tornado Warning 3, NWS Hastings, NE

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
1140 AM CST TUE MAR 13 1990

...TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTHCENTRAL AND EASTERN NEBRASKA UNTIL
   600 PM CST...

AT 1130 AM CST...GRAND ISLAND RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS IN A 50 MILE WIDE AREA EXTENDING FROM NORTHEAST THROUGH
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...AND INTO NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS.  THE
STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GRAND ISLAND
NEAR STOCKHAM.  STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND SOME
SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WER IN A 15 MILE WIDE AREA EXTENDING FROM
JUST SOUTH OF KEARNEY TO NEAR YORK.  ALL OF THE SHOWfERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND
POSSIBLE WARNINGS.                                        SULLIVAN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
1240 PM CST TUE MAR 13 1990

...TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTHCENTRAL AND EASTERN NEBRASKA UNTIL
   600 PM CST...

AT 1230 AM CST...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS PART OF
CENTRAL AND MUCH OF EASTERN NEBRASKA...EXTNEDING INTO NORTHEAST KANSAS.
THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS AT THAT TIME WERE 20 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST
OF COLUMBUS...15 MILES EAST OF YORK...AND 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF YORK.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY
WINDS TO NEAR 50 MILES AN HOUR...SMALL HAIL...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING VERY RAPIDLY NORTH NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES
AN HOUR.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM 35 TO 50 MILES NORTH OF GRAND ISLAND...
JUST WEST OF COLUMBUS...AND FROM 50 MILES SOUTHEAST TO 15 MILES EAST OF
LINCOLN.  THESE WERS ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR AND WERE
PRODUCING DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN.

NUMEROUS LIGHTER SHOWERS WERE OCCURING ACROSS THE EASTERN ONE-THIRD OF
NEBRASKA...EAST OF A LINE FROM O'NEILL TO TO THE KANSAS BORDER SOUTH OF
HASTINGS.

SULLIVAN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
140 PM CST TUE MAR 13 1990

...TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTHCENTRAL AND EASTERN NEBRASKA UNTIL
   600 PM CST...

AT 130 PM CST...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE RAPIDLY
NORTHEAST ACROSS EASTEERN NEBRASKA...WITH A SMALLER AREA OF SHOWERS IN
THE CENTHRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA...20 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF LINCOLN (OR 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SYRACUSE)...AND 25 MILES
EAST OF BEATRICE.  THESE STORMS WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY
RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS TO NEAR 50 MILES AN HOUR...
OND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL.  THEY WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES
AN HOUR.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A 50 TO 70 MILE WIDE AREA THAT
WAS CENTERED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM YANKTON SOUTH DAKOTA...TO 40
MILES SOUTHEAST OF BEATRICE.  THE HEAVIEST RAINS IN THIS AREA WERE
30 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORFOLK...20 MILES NORTHEAST AND AND 10 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF COLUMBUS...AND 15 MILES EAST OF LINCOLN.

A SMALLER AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE IN A 40 MILE WIDE AREA TO THE
EAST OF A LINE FROM AINSWORTH OT BROKEN BObW.

ALL OF THE PRECIPTITATION WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR.

SULLIVAN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
215 PM CST TUE MAR 13 1990

...TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTHCENTRAL AND EASTERN NEBRASKA UNTIL
   600 PM CST...

AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED RAPIDLY OVER THE PAST ONE HALF
HOUR IN NORTHERN KANSAS.  THIS STORM IS MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST AT
50 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING OVER THE HARLAN COUNTY RESERVOIR
BY 230 PM CST.  AT 210 PM...THE STORM WAS 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF HILL CITY
KANSAS.

THIS STORM WILL LIKELY INTENSIFY FURTHER AS TIME PROGRESSES.  REMEMBER...
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITLLE OR NO
ADVANCE WARNING.  IF YOU LIVE IN HARLAN COUNTY IN SOURHTERN NEBRASKA...
YOU SHOULD PREPARE TO TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF THIS STORM BECOMES
SEVERE.

SULLIVAN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
230 PM CST TUE MAR 13 1990

...TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTHCENTRAL AND EASTERN NEBRASKA UNTIL
   600 PM CST...

AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM IN EXTREME NORTHERN KANSAS AT 225 PM CST WILL
BE MOVING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA BY 245 PM... AND WILL LIKELY
CROSS THE HARLAN RESERVOIR RECREATIONAL AREA.  THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING VERY STRONG WINDS TO 50 MILES AN HOUR...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND
SOME HAIL IN ADDITION TO BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN.  THE STORM WAS MOVING
MORHTEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR.

IF YOU ARE IN THE VICINITY OF HARLAN RESERVOIR...YOU SHOULD STAY ALERT
TO THIS STORM AND TAKE SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING CONDITIONS APPROACH
YOU.  ALL BOATERS ON HARLAN RESERVOIR SHOULD MOVE TO SHORE UNTIL THE
STORM PASSES.

OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS WERE IN A 40 MILE WIDE ARE LOCATED
ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER IN EXTREME EASTERN NEBRASKA.  THESE WERE ALSO
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
SULLIVAN

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
340 PM CST TUE MAR 13 1990

...TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTHCENTRAL AND EASTERN NEBRASKA UNTIL
   600 PM CST...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST THROUGH SOUTH
CENTRAL NEBRASKA THIS AFTERNOON...AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE REDEVELOPING IN
THE SOUTHEAST PART OF THE STATE.

AT 335 PM CST...GRAND ISLAND RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM
45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND NEAR ODESSA.  OTHER STRONG STORMS
WERE 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOLDREDGE NEAR HILDRETH...AND IN A 10 MILE
WIDE LINE FROM 5 MILES EAST OF BEATRICE...TO 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
LINCOLN.

ALL OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES
AN HOUR.
SULLIVAN