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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Oct 17, 1994, 5:54 PM CDT for Greeley County, Howard County, Nebraska. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 17, 1994, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 17, 1994, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 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 12:00Z, 10.9 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
- 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 172257 TORGRI NEC077-093-172330- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 554 PM CDT MON OCT 17 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...SOUTHERN GREELEY COUNTY...AND ALL OF HOWARD COUNTY AT 551 PM CDT...A SPOTTER NORTH OF SAINT PAUL NEBRASKA OR 25 NORTH OF GRAND ISLAND REPORTED A TORNADO. THE STORM PRODUCING THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. THIS TAKES THE STORM INTO THE WOLBACH AREA BY 605 PM CDT. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR DANNEBROG OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND...MOVING TOWARD SAINT PAUL. 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, 5:42 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ077-086-087-172330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED TO ADD 2ND PARAGRAPH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 542 PM CDT MON OCT 17 1994 ...TORNADO WATCHES REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS EVENING... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL PASS THROUGH RUSKIN AND DESHLER NEBRASKA BY 6 PM AND REACH CARLETON AND STRANG BY 630 PM. THE STORM WILL PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. AT 540 PM THE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR HARDY OR 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS HAD WEAKENED. HOWEVER A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND UNTIL 11 PM IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. DROZD
Special weather statement, Oct 17, 5:43 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ077-086-087-172330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 542 PM CDT MON OCT 17 1994 ...TORNADO WATCHES REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS EVENING... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL PASS THROUGH RUSKIN AND DESHLER NEBRASKA BY 6 PM AND REACH CARLETON AND STRANG BY 630 PM. THE STORM WILL PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS HAD WEAKENED. HOWEVER A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND UNTIL 11 PM IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. DROZD
Special weather statement, Oct 17, 5:44 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ077-086-087-172330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED TO ADD 2ND PARAGRAPH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 542 PM CDT MON OCT 17 1994 ...TORNADO WATCHES REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS EVENING... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL PASS THROUGH RUSKIN AND DESHLER NEBRASKA BY 6 PM AND REACH CARLETON AND STRANG BY 630 PM. THE STORM WILL PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. AT 540 PM THE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR HARDY OR 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS HAD WEAKENED. HOWEVER A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND UNTIL 11 PM IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. DROZD
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, 5:00 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 |
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.