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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Hastings, NE

May 16, 19954 counties in Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 3:31 PM CDT for 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 44 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 1995, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1995, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Clay County, NE, Fillmore County, NE, Nuckolls County, NE, Thayer County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 163 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 243 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 211 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-564 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1111 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
211 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
214 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 162031
SVRGRI
NEC035-059-129-169-162115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
331 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE  HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN CLAY COUNTY...SOUTHERN FILLMORE COUNTY
   ...NORTHEASTERN NUCKOLLS COUNTY...NORTHWESTERN THAYER COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BRING LARGE HAIL TO NEAR ONG...DAVENPORT...
GENEVA AND ANGUS BY 415.
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HASTINGS NEAR ANGUS AND
IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.  THE STORM WILL PASS
NEAR ONG AND SHICKLEY BY 345 AND BE NEAR GENEVA BY 415 PM.
 
MOVE INDOORS IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD GET INTO A REINFORCED SHELTER FOR
PROTECTION FROM DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...VE<RY HEAVY RAIN...AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

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, May 16, 11:48 AM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-170600-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1148 AM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995

THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS COUNTIES

JEWELL        MITCHELL         OSBORNE
PHILLIPS      ROOKS            SMITH

SYNOPSIS:

THE ATMOSPHERE IS MOIST AND UNSTABLE AND THERE THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS.  THUNDERSTORMS
ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP $ALONG A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE THAT WILL BE
MOVING SOUTHWARD INTO NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON
AND EVENING.   SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS ANTICIPATED AFTER 3 PM CDT.
DGS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFillmore, Thayer30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.