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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Hastings, NE

June 11, 1997Furnas County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1997, 7:25 PM CDT for Furnas County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 min. 3 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: Jun 11, 1997, 7:25 PM CDT (00:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 1997, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Furnas County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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
Jun 11, 7:30 PM CDT	Hail 2.5	Hollinger, NE
Jun 11, 7:34 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Arapahoe, NE	Numerous funnel clouds were reported in Furnas County along with extensive crop damage from the hail.
Jun 11, 8:00 PM CDT	Hail 1	Oxford, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 11, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 47 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2573 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

333 
WFUS1 KGRI 120025 RRA
TORGRI
NEC065-120100-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
725 PM CDT WED JUN 11 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE  HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...FURNAS COUNTY
 
AT 720 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATING A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES
WEST OF ARAPAHOE OR 30 MILES SOUTH OF LEXINGTON. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM
WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
 
PERSONS IN ARAPAHOE AND EDISON NEED TO SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas	54 min
Jun 11, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Gosper	45 min
Jun 11, 7:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Howard	42 min
Jun 11, 7:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Sherman	28 min
Jun 11, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Harlan	65 min
Jun 11, 8:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Hall	25 min
Jun 11, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard	42 min
Jun 11, 8:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Hall	37 min
Jun 11, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	43 min
Jun 11, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Webster	39 min
Jun 11, 8:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Hall, Hamilton	47 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.