Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 44, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 1993, 6:29 PM CDT for Sherman County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 29, 1993, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 1993, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sherman County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Loup City, NE | A tornado touched down southwest of Loup City, destroying two grain bins, several outbuildings, and damaging the roof of a house. The tornado then travelled 6 miles northeast and lifted near Loup City. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 350 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 943 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 5:41 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-290845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 541 PM CDT SUN AUG 29 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEBRASKA UNTIL MIDNIGHT... ...TORNADO WARNING FOR SHERMAN COUNTY UNTIL 700 PM CDT... AT 532 PM CDT...A LINE FOR THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...EXTENDED FROM NORTHWEST KANSAS...ACROSS CENTRAL NEBRASKA INTO NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS 15 MILES WIDE...AND WAS FROM 25 MILES EAST OF MCCOOK TO KEARNEY TO 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND THEN TO 20 MILES NORTH OF NORFOLK. THE THUNDERSTORMS HAD FORMED WITHIN THE PAST HOUR AND WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IF THREATEN WEATHER APPROACHES YOU...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY...IT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE. WEST
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 6:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman, Valley | 49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.