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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Hastings, NE

June 7, 1993Nance County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1993, 1:01 AM CDT for Nance County, Nebraska. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 1993, 1:01 AM CDT (06:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 1993, 1:45 AM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Nance County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 645 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -266 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 547 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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

Local storm report, Jun 6, 10:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
1020 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 1993

TIME/CDT    LOCATION /EVENT
1018 PM     BUFFALO COUNTY...AMHERST REPORTS BASEBALL SIZE HAIL
            AMHERST IS 12 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF KEARNEY
DDN

NEY.
DGS

ORT FROM GOODLAND WEATHER SERVICE.
DGS

Local storm report, Jun 6, 10:20 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
1020 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 1993

TIME/CDT    LOCATION /EVENT
1018 PM     BUFFALO COUNTY...AMHERST REPORTS BASEBALL SIZE HAIL
            AMHERST IS 12 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF KEARNEY
DDN

NEY.
DGS

ORT FROM GOODLAND WEATHER SERVICE.
DGS

Local storm report, Jun 6, 11:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
1102 PM CDT SUN JUN 6 1993

TIME/CDT    LOCATION /EVENT
1059 PM     BUFFALO COUNTY...PLEASANTON MARBLE TO GOLFBALL SIZE
            HAIL...AND 1/2 MILE EAST OF HAZARD MARBLE SIZE HAIL.
DGS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 7:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Gosper, Phelps	26 min
Jun 6, 7:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Dawson	46 min
Jun 6, 8:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Buffalo, Dawson	52 min
Jun 6, 9:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Buffalo	42 min
Jun 6, 10:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Buffalo	44 min
Jun 6, 10:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Dawson	46 min
Jun 6, 10:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Buffalo	45 min
Jun 6, 11:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GID	Buffalo	3 hr
Jun 6, 11:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Buffalo, Hall	45 min
Jun 6, 11:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Howard, Sherman	48 min
Jun 7, 12:19 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Howard, Merrick, Nance	41 min
Jun 7, 12:19 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Sherman	41 min
Jun 7, 1:45 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Nance	15 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.