Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1993, 7:01 PM CDT for Nuckolls County, Webster County, Nebraska. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 1993, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1993, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Nuckolls County, NE, Webster County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 226 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 648 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 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 300001 RRA
SVRGRI
NEC129-181-300030-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
701 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 1993
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
NORTHWEST NUCKOLLS...NORTHEAST WEBSTER
AT 658 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED JUST NORTH
OF GUIDE ROCK...OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH OF HASTINGS. THE STORM
WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THE TOWN IN
THE PATH OF THIS STORM IS LAWRENCE.
PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD GET INTO A REINFORCED SHELTER AND
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING.
REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE CAN BE GIVEN TO A LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE WEATHER SERVICE. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 29, 3:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-291815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 323 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... SHORTLY AFTER 3 PM...A COUPLE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH OF KEARNEY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AXTELL. THESE STORMS CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. THESE STORMS WILL PASS NEAR THE MINDEN AND AXTELL AREAS BETWEEN 345 AND 400 THIS AFTERNOON. PEOPLE OUTDOORS IN THE PATHS OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND TRY TO GET INDOORS IF THE STORMS APPROACH. NIETFELD
Special weather statement, May 29, 3:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-291815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 323 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... SHORTLY AFTER 3 PM...A COUPLE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH OF KEARNEY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AXTELL. THESE STORMS CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. THESE STORMS WILL PASS NEAR THE MINDEN AND AXTELL AREAS BETWEEN 345 AND 400 THIS AFTERNOON. PEOPLE OUTDOORS IN THE PATHS OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND TRY TO GET INDOORS IF THE STORMS APPROACH. NIETFELD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 8:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick, Polk | 25 min |
| May 29, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams | 37 min |
| May 29, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay | 28 min |
| May 29, 10:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams | 33 min |
| May 29, 11:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | York | 43 min |
| May 29, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay | 51 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.