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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Hastings, NE

May 5, 1994Fillmore County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 5, 1994, 8:04 PM CDT for Fillmore County, Nebraska. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 1994, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1994, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Fillmore County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 136 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1994-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1994-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGRI 060109
TORGRI
NEC059-060200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
804 PM CDT THU MAY 5 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE  HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...FILLMORE COUNTY
 
AT 805 PM CDT SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF HENDERSON OR
ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF YORK. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30
MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO GENEVA BY 830 PM CDT. PEOPLE IN FILLMORE COUNTY
AND ESPECIALLY GENEVA SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE OPEN...TRY TO HIDE IN A DEPRESSION SUCH AS
A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
 
APFEL

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, May 5, 6:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 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, 1 hour 22 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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHoward30 min
May 5, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDHamilton34 min
May 5, 7:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPolk, York55 min
May 5, 7:50 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDHamilton40 min
May 5, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDClay, York44 min
May 5, 8:31 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDHamilton44 min
May 5, 8:58 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDClay, Fillmore, York47 min
May 5, 9:38 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDClay, Fillmore52 min
May 5, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDNuckolls, Thayer32 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.