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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Oct 17, 1994, 3:56 PM CDT for Phelps County, Nebraska. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 17, 1994, 3:56 PM CDT (20:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 17, 1994, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Phelps County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 1121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 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 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, Oct 17, 11:19 AM CDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-180200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1120 AM CDT MON OCT 17 1994 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS COUNTIES JEWELL MITCHELL OSBORNE PHILLIPS ROOKS SMITH SYNOPSIS: A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IS FORECAST TO MOVE FROM WESTERN KANSAS INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH COOLER AND DRIER AIR SPREADING INTO SOUTHWEST NEB(RASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS. WITH MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR OVER THE AREA A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FROM MID AFTERNOON TO EARLY EVENING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. DGS
Special weather statement, Oct 17, 11:20 AM CDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-180200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1120 AM CDT MON OCT 17 1994 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS COUNTIES JEWELL MITCHELL OSBORNE PHILLIPS ROOKS SMITH SYNOPSIS: A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IS FORECAST TO MOVE FROM WESTERN KANSAS INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH COOLER AND DRIER AIR SPREADING INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND NORTHWEST KANSAS. WITH MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR OVER THE AREA A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FROM MID AFTERNOON TO EARLY EVENING. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. DGS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 36 min |
| Oct 17, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo | 39 min |
| Oct 17, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo, Hall, Howard | 30 min |
| Oct 17, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Hall, Howard | 26 min |
| Oct 17, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Greeley, Howard | 36 min |
| Oct 17, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Osborne | 45 min |
| Oct 17, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell, Mitchell | 32 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.