Tornado Warning 26, NWS Hastings, NE

Issued

Aug 10, 1996, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)

Expired

Aug 10, 1996, 8:30 PM CDT

In force

54 min

Issued by

NWS Hastings, NE

Area

Whole counties

Counties Dawson County, NE, Gosper County, NE

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

000 
TTAA00 KGRI 110037
TORGRI
NEC047-073-110130-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
736 PM CDT SAT AUG 10 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
 
   ...DAWSON COUNTY...GOSPER COUNTY
 
PERSONS IN LEXINGTON SHOULD BE IN A TORNADO SHELTER OR BASEMENT NOW!
 
AT 730 PM...HASTINGS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES AND LARGE HAIL FROM JUST
NORTH OF LEXINGTON TO 25 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON.  THESE STORMS WERE
MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH LEXINGTON SOON AND INTO THE
JOHNSON AND ELWOOD RESERVOIRS BETWEEN 8 AND 815 PM.
 
THIS EXTENDS THE TORNADO WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED.
 
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM.
 
BASEBALL TO SOFTBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR GOTHENBURG BY THE CIVIL
DEFENSE DIRECTLOR BETWEEN 7 AND 715 PM.
 
ABANDON VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES.  GO TO A REINFORCED SHELTER OR
HIDE IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD.
&
 
JAB/DEG

NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Aug 10, 2:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 21 minutes earlier.

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

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