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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 1996, 9:48 PM CDT for Howard County, Sherman County, Nebraska. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 7, 1996, 9:48 PM CDT (02:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Howard County, NE, Sherman County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 080250 TORGRI NEC093-163-080330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 948 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...SOUTHWESTERN HOWARD COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN SHERMAN COUNTY ...PERSONS IN ROCKVILLE...BOELUS...DANNEBROG...FARWELL AND SURROUNDING AREAS SHOULD GO TO YOUR TORNADO SHELTERS NOW! AT 947 PM...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND NEAR ROCKVILLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. ABANDON VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES. GO TO A REINFORCED SHELTER OR HIDE IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. MLM/JG
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.
NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jul 7, 2:09 PM CDT, 7 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 2:09 PM CDT, 7 hours 39 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 208 PM CDT SUN JUL 7 1996 LOCATION OF THUNDESTORMS AND HEAVY RAINS TONIGHT ARE FORECAST CONCERNS. MIDDAY SFC ANAL CONTINUED TO SHOW OLD FRONTAL BOUNDRY IN SRN KS WITH DEW POINTS >65 INTO SC NEB AND >70 IN NC KS. PROFILER DATA INDICATES S/W MOVG OUT OF SE WY INTO NEB P/H. ONLY RETURNS AT PRESENT ON 88D IS IN JEWELL CO KS. THIS MORNING TRW WAS OBSERVERED WITH VERY WEAK RETURNS <30DB. UPSLOPE IN WRN NEB AND NW KS. ONLY MODEL LOOKED AT WAS THE NGM. X-SECTION ACROSS CWA SHOWS PVA FROM 02Z-09Z. GRIDDED DATA ALSO INDICATES POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY RAIN FROM LATER TONIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING. 8/7H QV CONVERGENCE ALSO INDICATED OVERNIGHT. BOTTOM LINE IS AS S/W MOVES INTO MOISTURE TONIGHT TRW SHOULD BEGIN TO FIRE AND SOME OF THE STORMS COULD BE STRONG AND HAVE HEAVY RAIN. STORMS LIKELY THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. WITH THE CLOUDS AND PRECIP ON MONDAY TEMPERATURES SHOULD BE COOLER THAN THE LAST WEEK OR SO BEFORE INCREASING BY MID WEEK AS A WARM FRONT PUSHES BACK ACROSS THE AREA. GRI 066/079 75 HBR 067/082 75 ODX 062/078 64 BEL 068/086 55 LXN 063/078 74P GRIFFITH
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, 7:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Gosper, Phelps | 44 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.