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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Hastings, NE

August 25, 1994Fillmore County, York County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 1994, 8:03 PM CDT for Fillmore County, York County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 25, 1994, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 1994, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Fillmore County, NE, York County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 252 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1994-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 299 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1994-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
299 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-106 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2094 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDYork34 min
Aug 25, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDYork34 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.