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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Hastings, NE

March 28, 1993Furnas County, Harlan County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 1993, 5:35 PM CST for Furnas County, Harlan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Mar 28, 1993, 5:35 PM CST (23:35 UTC)
Expired
Mar 28, 1993, 6:15 PM CST
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Furnas County, NE, Harlan County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 132 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1993-03-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 105 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1993-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 131 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
105 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-117 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
737 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.