Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 9, 1996, 7:02 PM CDT for Thayer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 min. 2 reports 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
- May 9, 1996, 7:02 PM CDT (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 1996, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Thayer County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 7:22 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Hebron, NE | |
| May 9, 7:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Hebron, 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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRI 100003 TORGRI NEC169-100030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 702 PM CDT THU MAY 9 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...THAYER COUNTY PERSONS IN THE TOWNS OF HEBRON...GILEAD AND ALEXANDRIA SHOULD BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! AT 700 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HEBRON MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED.
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 May 9, 3:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 9, 3:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 300 PM CDT THU MAY 9 1996 THERE IS A GLIMPSE OF LIGHT AT THE END OF THE FLOODED SVR WX TUNNEL. 19Z SFC MAP NEARLY A REPEAT OF YDY WITH QSTNRY BNDRY ACRS SE NEB AND NC KS WITH XCLLNT SURFACE MOISTURE CONVG SOUTH OF BNDRY. MODERATE COLD FRONT ALSO DROPPING SOUTH ACROSS NRN NEB SANDHILLS. H20 VAP LOOP AM UA ANAL AND PROF PLAN VIEWS SHOW MIDLVL S/WV AND UPPER LVL SPEED MAX CROSSING INTERMTN RGN. LUKS AS THO NC KS...SE NEB WL BE THE TARGET THIS EVENING WITH BOUNDARY IN VICINITY...BEST INSTABILITY...AND TRAK OF UPPER SPEED MAX PROGGED FOR NE KS. SHUD SEE DVLPMNT AGAIN ERLY THIS EVE AS LLJ INCRS. EXPECT ANOTHER DOUBLE WHAMMY AS SPD MAX ARRIVES THIS EVE...WITH MIDLVL TROF XPCTD TO MOVE OUT INTO PLAINS FM MIDNIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY AM. MDLS GENLY AGREE WITH SHIFT IN UPR PATTERN FM SWLY FLO TO NWLY FLOW...ALTHO DISCREPANCIES NOTED WITH SFC DVLPMNT. NGM APPEARS BEST WITH POSN AND SPEED OF SFC LOW. WAVE DVLPS AND MOVES ACRS NE KS INTO IA THRU FRIDAY...WITH COLR AIR FILTERING FM NORTH BHND TROF. AFTER SVR BOUT TON...UPPER TROF MOVS ACRS CEN PLAINS BRINGING COLR...PERIODIC RAIN FOR MOST OF FRI THEN...GRDL CLRG FRI NITE AND SAT AS UPR RIDGE BUILDS OVER WEST. HVY RAINS LAST COUPLE NIGHTS HV OCCURRED MAINLY IN TIGHT THETAE GRADIENT ON NORTH SIDE OF THETAE AXIS. WITH THIS FEATURE PROGGED TO SHIFT SLIGHTLY SOUTHEAST TON...AND MORE HVY CONVECTION XPCTD...HV COORD WITH OMA AND FFA WL BE ISSUED BASICALLY SOUTH AND EAST OF AN OLU-GRI-EAR LINE AS 2 DAYS WORTH OF 1-3" RAINS HV SOAKED PARTS OF AREA PRETTY WELL. AMS BHND ADVANCING COLD FNT OVR DAKS QUITE COLD WITH SNOW AT RAP AND BLV GUID HAS MISSED THIS...THUS WL LIKELY LEAN TO COLR LOWS TON AND HI/S FRIDAY WITH RAIN AND CLDS. LOOKING FORWARD TO SOME SS AGAIN SAT. GRI 045/054 85 LXN 042/054 55 ODX 041/050 55 HEB 052/057 86 BLT 055/064 75 BREWSTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay | 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.