Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1995, 3:10 PM CDT for Hall County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 1995, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1995, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hall County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 3:22 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Grand Island, NE |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 928 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1476 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 severe thunderstorm 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, Aug 5, 11:36 AM CDT, 3 hours 34 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-060500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1135 AM CDT FRI AUG 4 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS COUNTIES JEWELL MITCHELL OSBORNE PHILLIPS ROOKS SMITH SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. SYNOPSIS: A MID LEVEL IMPULSE OF ENERGY IS EXPECTED TO SWING ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL 0KANSAS TONIGHT. THIS COMBINED WITH PLENTY OF MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR COULD TRIGGER OFF SOME THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. EWALD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 1:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman, Valley | 43 min |
| Aug 5, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman | 50 min |
| Aug 5, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 44 min |
| Aug 5, 2:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo, Hall | 47 min |
| Aug 5, 3:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hall | 35 min |
| Aug 5, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton, Merrick | 52 min |
| Aug 5, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Kearney | 29 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.