Tornado Warning 7, NWS Hastings, NE

Issued

May 22, 1996, 11:19 PM CDT (04:19 UTC)

Expired

May 23, 1996, 12:00 AM CDT

In force

41 min

Issued by

NWS Hastings, NE

Area

Whole counties

Counties Jewell County, KS, Nuckolls County, NE

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:20 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 230418
TORGRI
KSC089-NEC129-230500-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1119 PM CDT WED MAY 22 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE  HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS
 
   ...NORTHERN JEWELL COUNTY
 
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...SOUTHERN NUCKOLLS COUNTY
 
AT 1117 PM...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 40 MILES
SOUTH OF HASTINGS NEAR BOSTWICK. THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH...WITH BOSTWICK...SUPERIOR AND LOVEWELL RESERVIOR
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.  TAKE SHELTER NOW!
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT .IN THE OPEN...TRY TO HIDE IN A DEPRESSION SUCH AS
A DITCH OR CULVERT.

NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at May 22, 2:36 PM CDT, 8 hours 43 minutes earlier.

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

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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.