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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Hastings, NE

June 5, 1992Merrick County, Nance County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1992, 4:15 PM CDT for Merrick County, Nance County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 5, 1992, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 1992, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Merrick County, NE, Nance County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOVN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 137 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2671 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGRI 052115
TORGRI
NEC121-125-052145-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
415 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
      NORTHERN MERRICK...SOUTHERN NANCE

AT 412 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC 5 MILES NORTH
OF PALMER NEBRASKA....OR 21 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF GRAND ISLAND.
THE TORNADO IS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.  EVERYONE IN THESE
AREAS SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT
OR BELOW GROUNDy.  OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED
BUILDING.

 DAS

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, Jun 5, 1:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

NEZ008-013>015-017>019-051930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 1:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

NEZ008-013>015-017>019-051930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
140 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992

    ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

AT 130 PM CDT...GRAND ISLAND RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY
RAIN 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF BROKEN BOW NEBRASKA.

THIS STORM WAS PART OF AN AREA OF CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WHICH WAS MOVING
THROUGH CENTRAL AND AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.  EARLIER DEPUTY SHERIFFS
REPORTED ONE HALF INCH OF RAIN IN 30 MINUTES 13 MILES WEST OF TAYLOR
NEBRASKA.  THE AREA OF STORMS EXTEND FROM THE SOUTH DAKOTA BORDER
SOUTHWESTWARD TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF KEARNEY NEBRASKA.

GRIFFITH

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 2:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

NEZ008-013>015-017>019-052030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
244 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992

  ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM FOR PORTIONS OF
     SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

AT 225 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE OVER PORTIONS OF
CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA.

THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A 70 MILE WIDE BAND FROM THE SOUTH DAKOTA/NEBRASKA
BORDER 30 MILES NORTH OF O`NEIL...SOUTHWEST TO NEAR BROKEN BOW.  THE
STRONGEST STORMS IN THIS AREA...LIKELY PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WERE 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF BROKEN BOW NEAR
CORNSTALK NEBRASKA.

OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED STORMS WERE OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA
JUST SOUTHWEST OF IMPERIAL.
MOVEMENT OF ALL THE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 35 MPH.

PEOPLE IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA SHOULD MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO
OR LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS CONCERNING THE WEATHER SFITUATION
THIS AFTERNOON FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

DAS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley, Howard	38 min
Jun 5, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nance	53 min
Jun 5, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk	39 min
Jun 5, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	39 min
Jun 5, 5:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Hall	26 min
Jun 5, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Merrick, Polk	66 min
Jun 5, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton	64 min
Jun 5, 6:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Polk	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.