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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Hastings, NE

June 16, 1990Nuckolls County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 1990, 7:13 PM CDT for Nuckolls County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 16, 1990, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1990, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Nuckolls 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 240 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1990-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1990-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -117 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1981 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-2.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGRI 170013
TORGRI
NEC129-170045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
713 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
      NUCKOLLS

AT 705 RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO JUST NORTH OF GUIDE ROCK NEBRASKA
MOVING TO THE EAST AT 50 MPH.  LAWRENCE AND NELSON AND VICINITIES
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO.
GUIDE ROCK IS 30 MILES SOUTH OF HASTINGS.

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 PFLOOR.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED
BUILDING.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 7:41 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDClay34 min
Jun 16, 7:53 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDClay, Fillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer67 min
Jun 16, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDClay, Nuckolls, Webster63 min
Jun 16, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFillmore, Thayer63 min
Jun 16, 8:47 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDFillmore, Thayer28 min
Jun 16, 9:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer68 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.