Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 10, 1996, 7:25 PM CDT for Sherman County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 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
- Aug 10, 1996, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sherman County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 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 00:00Z, 0.4 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
- 1239 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1758 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRI 110027 RRA TORGRI NEC163-110115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 725 PM CDT SAT AUG 10 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...SHERMAN COUNTY AT 723 PM CDT.. HASTINGS RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF LOUP CITY OR 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN THE COMMUNITIES OF ASHTON AND ROCKVILLE SHOULD SEEK SHELTER NOW. PURDY IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE OPEN...TRY TO HIDE IN A DEPRESSION SUCH AS A DITCH OR CULVERT.
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 Aug 10, 2:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 2:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 215 PM CDT SAT AUG 10 1996 QUESTIONS ARE TRW CHCS AND TEMPS TOMR. VERY IMPRESSIVE SYS MVG SE ACROSS REGION ATT. SEVERAL CIRCULATIONS... BUT MAIN ONE INTO NC NE. TRWS JUST STARTING TO FIRE IN DPVA OF THIS LO. ATMOS RATHER UNSTABLE THRU THE AREA AS WELL WITH DWPTS IN MID 60S AND TEMPS PUSHING 80 WHERE SUN HAS POPPED OUT. COULD GET INTERESTING IN NEXT HOUR OR TWO SO WILL DO A QUICK DISC. USED A COMPROMISE OF MDLS IN GENERAL...BUT THK SYS WILL MOVE SLOWER THAN FCSTS. SYS IN MT NOT PICKED UP AT ALL BY MDLS...BUT DOWNWARN VVS IN WAKE OF CURRENT SYS SHOULD MAKE THIS A NUL POINT TONIGHT. WOULD LIKE TO USE A NW TO SE DIVISION FOR ZONES...PROBABLY ABOUT LIKE CURRENT ONE. WITH SFC TROF JUST TO NW OF LXN/BBW/ONL LINE...THK NW GROUP TO HAVE EVE TRWS/RWS THEN PC...AND SE GROUP CHC POPS INTO TONIGHT. LOWS IN 50S NW AND NEAR 60 SE. SHIFTING WINDS. TOMR...WILL GO WITH FWC/S PESSIMISTIC HIGHS WITH SYS WORKING SLOWLY TO THE E...AND FLOW DIVING IN FROM DUE NORTH. HIGHS 80/85 NW TO 75/80 SE WITH MORE CLDS SE. TOMR NIGHT...P CLDY WITH SAME LOWS AS TONIGHT. MONDAY...NEXT SYS PROGGED BY AVN TO BE NORTH OF AREA BY EVENING. MAYBE SOMETHING OVERNIGHT...BUT NORTHING BY 6 PM. PREFER A MORE SLUGGISH WARMUP AS IT HAS BEEN ALL YEAR. SHAVE 5 DEG F OFF GUIDANCE AND GO 90 TO 95 NW TO NEAR 90 SE. GRI 059/076 42 HBR 060/076 53 ODX 056/080 41 BLT 062/078 63 LXN 054/084 30 GURNEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson, Gosper | 54 min |
| Aug 10, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo | 48 min |
| Aug 10, 8:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Furnas | 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.