Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 1995, 4:19 PM CDT for Furnas County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 4:19 PM CDT (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Furnas County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 1222 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 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 042119 TORGRI NEC065-042145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 419 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...FURNAS COUNTY AT 420 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 1 MILE NORTHEAST OF ARAPAHOE OR 35 MILES SOUTH OF LEXINGTON. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH...AND WILL MOVE NEAR ARAPAHOE. PEOPLE IN ARAPAHOE SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY TO SAVE THEIR LIVES. 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. CF
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, Jul 4, 11:34 AM CDT, 4 hours 45 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-060500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1134 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS COUNTIES JEWELL MITCHELL OSBORNE PHILLIPS ROOKS SMITH SYNOPSIS: HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING IN FROM THE ROCKIES WILL ALLOW DRY AND STABLE AIR TO FILTER INTO THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS NOT EXPECTED. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. SLA
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 11:37 AM CDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-050500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1137 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS COUNTIES JEWELL MITCHELL OSBORNE PHILLIPS ROOKS SMITH SYNOPSIS: THERE IS STILL ENOUGH INSTABLITY IN THE ATMOSPHERE THIS AFTERNOON WHICH WILL COMBINE WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING OUT OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. THIS WILL PROVIDE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH A FEW POSSIBLY REACHING SEVERE LIMITS...ESPECIALLY IN THE EASTERN COUNTIES. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. SLA
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 11:39 AM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-050500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1137 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS COUNTIES JEWELL MITCHELL OSBORNE PHILLIPS ROOKS SMITH SYNOPSIS: THERE IS STILL ENOUGH INSTABLITY IN THE ATMOSPHERE THIS AFTERNOON WHICH WILL COMBINE WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING OUT OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. THIS WILL PROVIDE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH A FEW POSSIBLY REACHING SEVERE LIMITS...ESPECIALLY IN THE EASTERN COUNTIES. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. SLA
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 11:39 AM CDT, 4 hours 40 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-050500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1139 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS COUNTIES JEWELL MITCHELL OSBORNE PHILLIPS ROOKS SMITH SYNOPSIS: THERE IS STILL ENOUGH INSTABILITY IN THE ATMOSPHERE THIS AFTERNOON WHICH WILL COMBINE WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING OUT OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. THIS WILL PROVIDE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH A FEW POSSIBLY REACHING SEVERE LIMITS...ESPECIALLY IN THE EASTERN COUNTIES. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. SLA
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 11:40 AM CDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-050500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1139 AM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THIS OUTLOOK PERTAINS TO THE FOLLOWING NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS COUNTIES JEWELL MITCHELL OSBORNE PHILLIPS ROOKS SMITH SYNOPSIS: THERE IS STILL ENOUGH INSTABILITY IN THE ATMOSPHERE THIS AFTERNOON WHICH WILL COMBINE WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING OUT OF NORTHWEST KANSAS. THIS WILL PROVIDE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH A FEW POSSIBLY REACHING SEVERE LIMITS...ESPECIALLY IN THE EASTERN COUNTIES. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. SLA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 40 min |
| Jul 3, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall, Howard, Sherman | 58 min |
| Jul 3, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Harlan | 69 min |
| Jul 3, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Howard, Sherman | 48 min |
| Jul 3, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley, Valley | 55 min |
| Jul 3, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper | 37 min |
| Jul 3, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 31 min |
| Jul 3, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Kearney, Phelps | 30 min |
| Jul 3, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Nuckolls, Webster | 41 min |
| Jul 3, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 25 min |
| Jul 3, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Thayer | 36 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.