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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 1996, 7:46 PM CDT for Gosper County, Phelps County, Nebraska. It was in force for 44 min. 3 reports 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
- Jul 7, 1996, 7:46 PM CDT (00:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1996, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gosper County, NE, Phelps County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 8:14 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Loomis, NE | |
| Jul 7, 8:20 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Holdrege, NE | |
| Jul 7, 8:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Funk, 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.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 1066 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 377 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 12.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRI 080047 TORGRI NEC073-137-080130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 746 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...NORTHEASTERN GOSPER COUNTY...PHELPS COUNTY ...PERSONS IN SMITHFIELD...BERTRAND AND LOOMIS SHOULD GO TO A TORNADO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY TO SAVE YOUR LIFE... AT 743...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR SMITHFIELD OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF LEXINGTON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS REPLACES THE WARNINGS ISSUED EARLIER FOR GOSPER AND PH"ELPS COUNTIES. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SHOULD TAKE COVER IN A REINFORCED SHELTER.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper | 35 min |
| Jul 7, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phelps | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 8:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Harlan, Phelps | 26 min |
| Jul 7, 8:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson | 49 min |
| Jul 7, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Valley | 33 min |
| Jul 7, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Harlan | 27 min |
| Jul 7, 9:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Franklin, Harlan | 38 min |
| Jul 7, 9:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson | 28 min |
| Jul 7, 9:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Howard, Sherman | 42 min |
| Jul 7, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall | 39 min |
| Jul 7, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton, Merrick | 35 min |
| Jul 7, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper | 35 min |
| Jul 7, 10:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams | 38 min |
| Jul 7, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Harlan, Webster | 56 min |
| Jul 7, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Nuckolls | 56 min |
| Jul 7, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Kearney, Phelps | 35 min |
| Jul 7, 11:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 29 min |
| Jul 7, 11:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Fillmore, Thayer | 53 min |
| Jul 7, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Webster | 26 min |
| Jul 7, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 26 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.