Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 13, 1992, 5:25 PM CDT for Greeley County, Howard County, Nance County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 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
- Aug 13, 1992, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 1992, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greeley County, NE, Howard County, NE, Nance County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 5:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Greeley, 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
Omaha, NE (KOVN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1098 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 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 132225
TORGRI
NEC077-093-125-132300-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
525 PM CDT THU AUG 13 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
SOUTHEAST GREELEY...NORTHEAST HOWARD...WESTERN NANCE
AT 525 PM RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO OVER WOLBACH IN SOUTHERN GREELEY
COUNTY. TENNIS BALL SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.
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.
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY
TO SAVE YOUR LIVES. DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO WITH YOUR CAR.
IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE LIKLEY WITH THIS STORM.
VEJ/DGDWhat 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, Aug 13, 2:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-132045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 243 PM CDT THU AUG 13 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN NORTHERN NEBRASKA... AT 232 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE HAIL AND GUSTY WIND HAD FORMED IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA 40 MILES SOUTH OF VALENTINE AND 10 MILES SOUTH OF AINSWORTH. THOSE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. IF THAT TRACK CONTINUES THESE STORMS WOULD MOVE TO AROUND THE BROKEN BOW AREA BY 430 PM. ANOTHER CLUSTER OF THUNDRSTORMS WAS OVER NORTHEAST NEBRASKA FROM AROUND O NEILL TO 20 MILES NORTH OF NORFOLK. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF O NEILL. MOVEMENT WAS ALSO TO THE SOUTH- EAST AT 25 MPH AND TOWARD THE COLUMBUS AREA. DGS
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 3:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-132145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 348 PM CDT THU AUG 13 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA... AT 332 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH DOWNPOURS OF RAIN...SOME HAIL AND GUSTY WIND CONTINUED TO INCREASE IN INTENSITY. A RANCHER NEAR WOOD- LAKE IN EXTREME EAST CHERRY COUNTY OF NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA REPORTED RAINFALL FO 2 INCHES AND MARBLE SIZE HAIL FROM A STORM THAT FORMED EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON SOUHTEAST OF VALENTINE. THAT STORM CONTINUED STRONG AND WAS NEAR HALSEY OR 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF BROKEN BOW AND WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 25 MPH. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE 20 MILES WEST OF O NEILL...15 MILES SOUTH OF O NEILL...AND 30 MILES WEST OF MORFOLK...MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 20 TO 25 MPH. A WEAKENING STRONG STORM WAS JUST SOUTH OF NORFOLK. PEOPLE LIVING NORTHWEST TO WEST OF BROKEN BOW...AND NORTH TO NORTHEA.ST OF BURWELL TOWARD THE AREA WEST OF NORRH OF COLUMBUS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL...SOME HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WIND UNTIL 5 OR 6 PM. DGS
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 3:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-132145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 348 PM CDT THU AUG 13 1992...CORRECTION FOR TYPOS ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA... AT 332 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH DOWNPOURS OF RAIN...SOME HAIL AND GUSTY WIND CONTINUED TO INCREASE IN INTENSITY. A RANCHER NEAR WOOD- LAKE IN EXTREME EAST CHERRY COUNTY OF NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA REPORTED RAINFALL OF 2 INCHES AND MARBLE SIZE HAIL FROM A STORM THAT FORMED EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON SOUTHEAST OF VALENTINE. THAT STORM CONTINUED STRONG AND WAS NEAR HALSEY OR 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF BROKEN BOW AND WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 25 MPH. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE 20 MILES WEST OF O NEILL...15 MILES SOUTH OF O NEILL...AND 30 MILES WEST OF NORFOLK...MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 20 TO 25 MPH. A WEAKENING STRONG STORM WAS JUST SOUTH OF NORFOLK. PEOPLE LIVING NORTHWEST TO WEST OF BROKEN BOWB...AND NORTH TO NORTHEAST OF BURWELL TOWARD THE AREA WEST AND NORTH OF COLUMBUS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL...SOME HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WIND UNTIL 5 OR 6 PM. DGS
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 4:42 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-132245- SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 440 PM CDT THU AUG 13 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN CUSTER AND EASTERN LOGAN COUNTIES UNTIL 445 PM CDT... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTHWARD TOWARD SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... AT 430 PM...RADAR CONTINUED TO DETECT AN AREA OF ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND RAINSHOWERS OVER PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL...CENTRAL... AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. THESE STORMS WERE MAINLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM NORTH PLATTE...TO 15 MILES NORTH KEARNEY...TO 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRAND ISLAND...OR NEAR GENEVA... TO 20 MILES NORTH OF LINCOLN NEBRASKA. MOVEMENT OF THE WESTERN PORTION OF THESE STORMS WERE TO THE SOUTH SOUTHWEST AT 25 MPH WHILE THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE AREA WAS MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS VERY HEAVY RAINFALL ...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY HAIL WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. THE STORMS WERE EXPECTED TO REACH A SCOTIA... CENTRAL CITY...SEWARD LINE BY 530 PM. IF SEVERE WEATHER THREATENS...BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. SEEK SHELTER INSIDE UNTIL THESE STORMS PFASS THROUGH YOUR AREA. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS ALSO. VEJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley, Nance | 34 min |
| Aug 13, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Merrick | 30 min |
| Aug 13, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Hamilton | 31 min |
| Aug 13, 6:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton | 27 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.