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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 16, 1992, 2:15 AM CDT for Howard County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1992, 2:15 AM CDT (07:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1992, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Howard County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -75 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 160715
TORGRI
NEC093-160745-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
215 AM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
SOUTHERN HOWARD
AT 210 AM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY A DEPUTY JUST NORTH OF BOELUS
NEBRASKA...OR AROUND 25 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND.
RADAR SHOWS THE TORNADXO MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH TOWARD
THE TOWN OF DANNEBROG...RESIDENTS OF DANNEBROG SHOULD TAKE COVER.
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.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE OPEN...TRY TO HIDE IN A DEPRESSION SUCH
AS A DITCH OR CULVERT. COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF A TORNADO...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE LIKLEY WITH THIS STORM.
DOS/DGSWhat 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, May 15, 8:39 PM CDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-160230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 835 PM CDT FRI MAY 15 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR A LARGE PART OF NEBRASKA UNTIL 1000 PM CDT... ...A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST AND EASTCENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT... AT 830 PM CDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...SOME PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN... STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL...COVERED MOST OF A 30 TO 40 MILE WIDE AREA FROM NORTH CENTRAL TO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...STRETCHING FROM 50 MILES NORTH OF GRAND ISLAND...OR NORTH OF GREELEY...TO BROKEN BOW...JUST SOUTH OF NORTH PLATTE....AND THEN TO IMPERIAL. THE MOST INTENSE THUNDERSTORM IN THIS AREA WAS CENTERED 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NORTH PLATTE...WHERE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR LINCOLN COUNTY UNTIL 845 PM CDT. OTHER INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE CONTINUING IN EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...FROM NORTHWEST TO NORTHEAST ONEILL. MOVEMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS GENERALLY EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. TORNADO WATCHES REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR MUCH OF NEBRASKA AND UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR MUCH OF EASTCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. YOU SHOULD MONITOR NOAA WEA-THER RADIO...AND LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO BROADCASTS FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS. DGD
Special weather statement, May 15, 10:48 PM CDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, May 16, 12:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-160640- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 1245 AM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEBRASKA TIL 5 AM CDT... ...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR PORTION OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA TIL 3 AM CDT... AT 1235 AM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL CONTINUED IN A 15 MILE WIDE AREA FROM NEAR COLUMBUS TO EAST OF GRAND ISLAND NEAR HORDVILLE TO NORTH OF KEARNEY...WEST OF PLEASANTON. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA WERE LOCATED NEAR COLUMBUS... SOUTHWEST OF COLUMBUS NEAR STROMSBURG...NEAR GRAND ISLAND AND NORTH OF KEARNEY. SOME STREET FLOODING WAS OCCURING IN HAZARD...NORTH OF KEARNEY AND HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED IN THAT TOWN. 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN THERE...CAUSING SOME STREET FLOODING. LOWLAND FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE HEAVIER STORMS DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. MOVEMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. OTHER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEBRASKA...MAINLY TO THE NORTH OF A LINE FROM NORTH OF OMAHA NEAR TEKAMAH TO SOUTH OF HASTINGS NEAR BLUE HILL TO WEST OF NORTH PLATTE NEAR KEYSTONE. MLG
Special weather statement, May 16, 1:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-160640- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTION TO HEADING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 1245 AM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEBRASKA TIL 5 AM CDT... ...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR PORTION OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA TIL 3 AM CDT... AT 1235 AM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL CONTINUED IN A 15 MILE WIDE AREA FROM NEAR COLUMBUS TO EAST OF GRAND ISLAND NEAR HORDVILLE TO NORTH OF KEARNEY...WEST OF PLEASANTON. THE HEAVIEST THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA WERE LOCATED NEAR COLUMBUS... SOUTHWEST OF COLUMBUS NEAR STROMSBURG...NEAR GRAND ISLAND AND NORTH OF KEARNEY. SOME STREET FLOODING WAS OCCURING IN HAZARD...NORTH OF KEARNEY AND HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED IN THAT TOWN. 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE ALREADY FALLEN THERE...CAUSING SOME STREET FLOODING. LOWLAND FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE HEAVIER STORMS DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. MOVEMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS EAST AT 20 MPH. OTHER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEBRASKA...MAINLY TO THE NORTH OF A LINE FROM NORTH OF OMAHA NEAR TEKAMAH TO SOUTH OF HASTINGS NEAR BLUE HILL TO WEST OF NORTH PLATTE NEAR KEYSTONE. MLG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 56 min |
| May 15, 9:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Howard, Merrick, Nance | 28 min |
| May 15, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 46 min |
| May 16, 1:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Hamilton, Merrick | 64 min |
| May 16, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley | 36 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.