Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1994, 9:58 PM CDT for Nuckolls County, Thayer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 5, 1994, 9:58 PM CDT (02:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1994, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Nuckolls County, NE, Thayer County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2291 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 severe thunderstorm 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, May 5, 6:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-060030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 640 PM CDT THU MAY 05 1994 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... ...TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL MIDNIGHT... AT 635 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA. ONE STORM WAS ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF GRAND ISLAND NEAR ST LIBORY...WHILE ANOTHER WAS 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRAND ISLAND NEAR PALMER. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. THEY WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE MOVING OVER THE TOWNS OF CENTRAL CITY AND CHAPMAN...OR TO THE NORTHEAST OF GRAND ISLAND. NIETFELD
Special weather statement, May 5, 6:42 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-060030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 640 PM CDT THU MAY 05 1994 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... ...TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL MIDNIGHT... AT 635 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA. ONE STORM WAS ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF GRAND ISLAND NEAR ST LIBORY...WHILE ANOTHER WAS 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF GRAND ISLAND NEAR PALMER. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. THEY WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL BE MOVING OVER THE TOWNS OF CENTRAL CITY AND CHAPMAN...OR TO THE NORTHEAST OF GRAND ISLAND. NIETFELD
Local storm report, May 5, 8:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 850 PM CDT THU MAY 5 1994 PRELIMINARY.... TIME LOCATION EVENT 710 PM 4NW ST LIBORY 1 1/4" HAIL 735 PM CHAPMAN GPLFBALL SIZE HAIL 740 PM 3W &5N AURARA GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL/60-70 MPH WND 743 PM HENDERSON FUNNEL CLD 745 PM AURARA 2N 1" HAIL 805 PM AURARA 3SW TORNADO 805 PM 8S HENDERSON TORNADO 835 PM AURARA BASEBALL HAIL BW
Local storm report, May 5, 8:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 850 PM CDT THU MAY 5 1994 PRELIMINARY.... TIME LOCATION EVENT 710 PM 4NW ST LIBORY 1 1/4" HAIL 735 PM CHAPMAN GPLFBALL SIZE HAIL 740 PM 3W &5N AURARA GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL/60-70 MPH WND 743 PM HENDERSON FUNNEL CLD 745 PM AURARA 2N 1" HAIL 805 PM AURARA 3SW TORNADO 805 PM 8S HENDERSON TORNADO 835 PM AURARA BASEBALL HAIL BW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Howard | 30 min |
| May 5, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton | 34 min |
| May 5, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Polk, York | 55 min |
| May 5, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton | 40 min |
| May 5, 8:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Fillmore | 56 min |
| May 5, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Clay, York | 44 min |
| May 5, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton | 44 min |
| May 5, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore, York | 47 min |
| May 5, 9:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Clay, Fillmore | 52 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.