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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Hastings, NE

July 25, 1996Furnas County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 1996, 7:06 PM CDT for Furnas County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 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 25, 1996, 7:06 PM CDT (00:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Furnas County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1996-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1996-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 344 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-389 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2372 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
344 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
461 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGRI 260007
TORGRI
NEC065-260045-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
706 PM CDT THU JUL 25 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE  HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...NORTHERN FURNAS COUNTY
 
PERSONS IN CAMBRIDGE AND HOLBROOK SHOULD BE IN A SHELTER NOW!
 
AT 705 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST TO THE
NORTHEAST OF CAMBRIDGE OR 40 MILES SOUTHWEST LEXINGTON MOVING TO THE
SOUTH AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE
SHELTER NOW!
 
THIS UPGRADES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR FURNAS COUNTY.
 
GRIFFITH/FAY

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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.