Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 22, 1996, 9:45 PM CDT for Jewell County, Kansas. It was in force for 30 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
- May 22, 1996, 9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1996, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jewell County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1697 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 501 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRI 230246 RRA TORGRI KSC089-230315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 945 PM CDT WED MAY 22 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS ...EASTERN JEWELL COUNTY IF YOU LIVE MANKATO MONTROSE AND WEBBER GO TO YOUR TORNADO SHELTER NOW! AT 944 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF CONCORDIA...OR JUST SOUTH OF LOVEWELL RESERVOIR. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. BOATERS AND CAMPERS AT LOVEWELL RESERVIOR SHOULD SEEK SHELTER NOW! PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SHOULD TAKE COVER IN A REINFORCED SHELTER.
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 22, 2:36 PM CDT, 7 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 2:36 PM CDT, 7 hours 9 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 235 PM CDT TUE MAY 21 1996 MOST OF THE FREE WORLD EXPECTS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS THE CWA...FORECAST PROBLEM IS TIMING AND EXACT LOCATIONS. AT 18Z WARM FRONT (BASED ON 55 DEW POINTS) IN NORTHERN KS WITH A COOLER AIR MASS SAGGIGNG SOUTHWARD FROM THE NORTHERN PLAINS. ALSO CIRCULATION AROUND A HIGH OVER MO WAS PUMPING SOME DRIER AIR INTO THE AREA. UEX 88D STARTING TO SHOW MID LEVEL REFLECTIVITIES ALONG A LINE FROM EAR TO HEBRON. 12Z U/A ANAL HAD 5H RIDGE OVHD WITH A LOW OVER THE PAC NW. S/W DETECTED OVER GREAT BASIN AND WV IMAGERY SHOWING THIS FEATURE MOVG EAST. MODELS SIMILIAR IN THE DEEPING OF THE PAC NW LOW AND KEEP SW FLOW ALOFT. IN ADDITION LOW PRESSURE IS MAINTAINED IN SW KS WITH A FRONTAL BOUNDARY IN THE AREA NOT GOING ANYWHERE. THEATA-E SUGGEST HEAVY RAIN IN ERN PTN OF NEB CWA AND AGREE WITH OMA ON THE FFW FOR THE ERN COUNTIES. WHEN LBF SOUNDING MODIFIED THIS MORNING ATMOSPHERE BECOMES MODERATELY UNSTABLE AND SO BELIEVE ITS JUST A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE THINGS COME TOGETHER. WITH LITTLE CHANGE IN THE OVERALL PATTERN LOOKS LIKE THURSDAY COULD BE A REPEAT OF TODAY. LOOKING FURTHER AHEAD FRIDAY LOOKS LIKE OVERRUNNING IN PLACE SO IT APPEARS THE DROUGHT WILL CONTINUE. MCS/MCC DEVELOPING TONIGHT NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. NUMERICAL GUIDANCE DEFINITELY SHOW A TEMPERATURE BOUNDARY BETWEEN SC NEB AND NC KS. GRI 058/075 74 HBR 057/076 74 ODX 055/070 74 BLT 062/088 62 LXN 055/072 74 GRIFFITH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 41 min |
| May 22, 11:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Jewell | 41 min |
| May 22, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 45 min |
| May 23, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 42 min |
| May 23, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 34 min |
| May 23, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips, Smith | 43 min |
| May 23, 1:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Smith | 33 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.