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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Oct 17, 1994, 5:00 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Hall County, Howard County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 17, 1994, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 17, 1994, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Buffalo County, NE, Hall County, NE, Howard County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRI 172201 TORGRI NEC093-019-079-172230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 500 PM CDT MON OCT 17 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...SOUTHERN HOWARD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...EASTERN BUFFALO COUNTY...NORTHWESTERN HALL COUNTY A TORNADO PRODUCING THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...AT 458 PM CDT A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR AND SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 11 MILES NORTH OF HIGHWAY 30 ON THE RAVENNA ROAD...OR 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF KEARNEY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM SHOULD REACH BOELUS NEBRASKA BY 515 PM CDT...AND COULD REACH BY SAINT PAUL BY 530 PM CDT. PERSONS IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED. & LEW
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, 5 hours 41 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, 5 hours 40 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, 3:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phelps | 34 min |
| 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, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Hall, Howard | 26 min |
| Oct 17, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Greeley, Howard | 36 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 1994Every tornado warning in 1994Tornadoes in 1994
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.