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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 18, 1992, 8:03 PM CDT for Adams County, Kearney County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 1992, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1992, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, NE, Kearney County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 1217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2474 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRI 190104 TORGRI NEC001-099-190130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 803 PM CDT SAT JUL 18 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND ISLAND HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...ADAMS COUNTY...EASTERN KEARNEY COUNTY AT 800 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF MINDEN NEBRASKA...OR 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KEARNEY NEBRASKA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN KEARNEY COUNTY AND SOUTHERN BUFFALO COUNTY THAT EXPIRED AT 800 PM CDT. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT. PERSONS IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE OPEN...TRY TO HIDE IN .A DEPRESSION SUCH AS A DITCH OR CULVERT. LEW
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, Jul 18, 4:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-182245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 437 PM CDT SAT JUL 18 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 900 PM CDT... AT 425 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE INCREASING IN NUMBER AND INTENSITY OVER NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THE STORMS WERE NORTH OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM O`NEIL...TO BROKEN BOW... ...TO MULLEN AND EAST OF A LINE FROM MULLEN TO VALENTINE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE 22 MILES EAST OF MULLEN...AND 25 MILES WEST OF AINSWORTH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL..AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. A LONE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA 25 MILES WEST OF MCCOOK. ^ MOVEMENT OF ALL THE THUNDERSTORMS WAS TO THE SOUHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER. DAS
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 5:40 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-182345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 540 PM CDT SAT JUL 18 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 900 PM CDT... AT 525 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG...WERE OVER PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL AND CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THESE STORMS WERE WEST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF O`NEIL...TO O`NEIL...TO 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BROKEN BOW. THEY WERE NORTH OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BROKEN BOW... TO 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORTH PLATTE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 15 MILES NORTH AND 10 MILES WEST OF BROKEN BOW AND ALSO 10 MILES EAST OF AINSWORTH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ^ OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA FROM SOUTH OF LEXINGTON...TO SOUTH OF GOTHENBURG. ALL THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE WEAHTHER SITUATION CLOSELY THIS EVENING. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. DAS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson | 26 min |
| Jul 18, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phelps | 36 min |
| Jul 18, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo, Kearney | 30 min |
| Jul 18, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson | 30 min |
| Jul 18, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Harlan, Phelps | 27 min |
| Jul 18, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Valley | 33 min |
| Jul 18, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick, Nance, Polk | 36 min |
| Jul 18, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper, Phelps | 33 min |
| Jul 18, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Nuckolls, Webster | 25 min |
| Jul 18, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore | 25 min |
| Jul 18, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Polk, York | 25 min |
| Jul 18, 9:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | York | 30 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.