Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1990
Tornado Warning 33, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1990, 6:46 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Nebraska. It was in force for 29 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 16, 1990, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1990, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Buffalo 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 16, 6:57 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Buffalo, 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -529 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 772 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 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 162346
TORGRI
NEC019-170015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
646 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
SOUTHERN BUFFALO...INCLUDING THE TOWN OF KEARNEY
AT 640 PM RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN SOUTHERN BUFFALO COUNTY
...JUST SOUTH OF KEARNEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
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.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, 9:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Gosper | 22 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, 6:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Webster | 69 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.