Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 46, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 1993, 7:02 PM CDT for Greeley County, Howard County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 29, 1993, 7:02 PM CDT (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 1993, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greeley County, NE, Howard County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 1607 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1314 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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, 1 hour 21 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
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 6:41 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-300045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTED ISSUE TIMES NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 641 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 632 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
Special weather statement, Aug 29, 6:53 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
NEZ008-013>015-017>019-300045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY...CORRECTED ISSUE TIMES NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND ISLAND NE 641 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 632 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, 7:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Sherman | 21 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 1993Every tornado warning in 1993Tornadoes 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.