Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Hastings, NE
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore, Thayer | 30 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.