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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Hastings, NE

August 10, 1996Buffalo County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 10, 1996, 8:12 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Nebraska. It was in force for 48 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: Aug 10, 1996, 8:12 PM CDT (01:12 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 1996, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Buffalo County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 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
Aug 10, 8:15 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Pleasanton, 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 132 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGRI 110112
TORGRI
NEC019-110200-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
812 PM CDT SAT AUG 10 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE  HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...EASTERN BUFFALO COUNTY
 
PERSONS IN RAVENNA...SWEETWATER AND OVER OPEN COUNTRY
SHOULD SEEK A STURDY SHELTER NOW!
 
AT 807 PM...HASTINGS DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS FROM FIRE
DEPARTMENTS IN SHERMAN COUNTY HAVE INDICATED A TORNADO AND SEVERAL
FUNNEL CLOUDS 30 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF KEARNEY NEAR ROCKVILLE.
THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.
 
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SHOULD TAKE COVER IN A REINFORCED
SHELTER.
 
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM.
 
JAB/DEG

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 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 2:15 PM CDT, 5 hours 57 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, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Sherman	50 min
Aug 10, 7:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Dawson, Gosper	54 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.