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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 16, 1996, 6:04 PM CDT for Nance County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report 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 16, 1996, 6:04 PM CDT (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1996, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nance County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Genoa, 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1676 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRI 162305 TORGRI NEC125-162330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 604 PM CDT TUE JUL 16 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...NORTHEASTERN NANCE COUNTY PERSONS IN GENOA SHOULD BE IN A SHELTER NOW! AT 601 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM AND POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST WEST OF GENOA OR 27 MILES WEST OF COLUMBUS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH. PERSONS IN GENOA TAKE COVER NOW! PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SHOULD TAKE COVER IN A REINFORCED SHELTER. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT JOF TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER NOW.
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 16, 2:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 2:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 235 PM CDT TUE JUL 16 1996 LOCATION OF INITIAL FIRING OF NEXT ROUND OF CONVECTION BIGGEST PROBLEM IN THE SHORT TERM. QUITE THE COMPLEX SYNOPTIC AND MESOSCALE SITUATION IN THE AREA TODAY. 12Z UA ANALYSIS INDICATED MOISTURE AXIS FROM DEEP SOUTH INTO WESTERN NEBRASKA WITH H8 DWPTS 15C+. H8 WMFNT WAS WELL DEFINED FROM WRN ND INTO ERN NEB. FRONTOGENESIS WAS NOTED AT H7 AS QVECTORS WERE ALIGNED NORMAL TO THE BAROCLINIC ZONE OVER ERN NEB/SD FROM COLD TO WARM. BLV INTERACTION BETWEEN S/WV MOVG ACRS NRN NEB THIS AM AND MIDLVL WMFNTS ACCOUNTS FOR MORNING TSTMS THAT REDEVELOPED OVER ERN CWA. ANALYSIS...SATL AND PROFILERS TODAY ALSO INDICATED MINOR S/WV TROF MOVG THRU WRN WY TO WRN NM. AT THE SFC...TROF OF LOW PRES CONTUS TO STRENGHTHEN AND SOME SORT OF THERMAL BOUNDARY WAS DEVELOPING BETWEEN THE SUNNY AND CLOUDY AREAS ALONG THE NEB/KS BORDER. HARD TO SAY IF THIS IS TRUE SYNOPTIC WMFRONTOGENESIS AS INDICATORS WERE WEAK AT BEST. NONE-THE-LESS THERE/S A BOUNDARY TO CONTEND WITH ALONG THE BORDER. FELT NGM HANDLED S/WVS BEST AND MOST CONSISTENTLY LAST FEW DAYS AND WL FLW THRU FCST. AS INTERMOUNTAIN S/WV MOVES INTO PLAINS TON...TUFF CALL AS TO WHERE INITIAL REDEVELOPMENT WILL OCCUR. MODIFIED LBF SOUNDING STILL HELD A 2-3C MIDLVL CAP...WITH OMA MODIFIED DOWN TO NO CAP. PLENTY OF SS ACROSS WRN PANHANDLE AND NW KS TAFTN WITH ...SO ALL SHUD POINT TO DLVPMNT OVER NW KS/SC NEB. BLV ORGANIZED CONVECTION AND MCS WL FORM LATER THIS EVE AS STORMS INTERACT WITH AFOREMENTIONED MIDLVL FRONTS OVER SCNTRL-ERN NEB. THEREFORE HIEST POPS PROBABLY EAST OF US281 AND NORTH OF KS BORDER TON WITH HVY RAIN LIKELY. AFT THIS EVE...PAC CST UPR LOW DIGS SWWD WITH A RIDGING RESPONSE AND MID-LLVL WARMING OVER THE CENTRAL PLAINS. NEVER REALLY SEE A SOLID WLY DOWNSLOPE COMPONENT...AND WITH DWPTS STILL TO REMAIN MDTLY HI...WL FLW COLR FWC GUID ON MAXES. H7 TEMPS GO ABV CAPPING THRESHHOLD AFT TON...SO LUKS LIKE GUID POPS ARE PEGGING CLIMO VALUES AS S/WV ENERGY RIDES NORTH OF CWA. WL HV TO WATCH WK TX S/WV PROGGED TO MOV ACRS KS THO. GRI 067/091 41 HBR 068/091 52 ODX 065/093 41 BLT 068/094 20 LXN 063/091 30 BREWSTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nance | 50 min |
| Jul 16, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nance | 35 min |
| Jul 16, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Polk | 36 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.