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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 1993, 3:46 PM CDT for Howard County, Nance County, Nebraska. It was in force for 24 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1993, 3:46 PM CDT (20:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1993, 4:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Howard County, NE, Nance County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 825 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1053 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KGRI 262046
TORGRI
NEC093-121-125-262130-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE
346 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 1993
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
EASTERN HOWARD...WESTERN MERRICK...SOUTHWEST NANCE
AT 345 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 20 MILES
NORTH OF GRAND ISLAND...OR BETWEEN CUSHING AND ST. PAUL MOVING
EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THE WARNING INCLUDES
THE TOWNS OF PALMER...AND ARCHER.
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.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 26, 3:25 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 325 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 1993 TIME CDT LOCATION 252 PM HAIL MARBLE SIZE NORTH LOUP-VALLEY COUNTY 255 PM HAIL MARBLE SIZE SCOTIA-GREELEY COUNTY 250 PM TWO TORNADOES NEAR ARCADIA-VALLEY COUNTY 302 PM HAIL GOLF BALL SIZE SCOTIA-GREELEY COUNTY 312 PM FUNNEL CLOUD 10 MILES WEST OF WOLBACH-GREELEY COUNTY 318 PM HAIL PEA TO MARBLE SIZE TAYLOR-LOUP COUNTY DGS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Valley | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley, Valley | 42 min |
| Jun 26, 3:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Sherman, Valley | 40 min |
| Jun 26, 3:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Howard | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Merrick | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton, Merrick, Polk, York | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Sherman | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo | 37 min |
| Jun 26, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hall | 40 min |
| Jun 26, 5:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore | 39 min |
| Jun 26, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Hamilton | 103 min |
| Jun 26, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall | 51 min |
| Jun 26, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore | 47 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.