Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1997, 8:58 PM CDT for Hall County, Hamilton County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 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
- Jun 11, 1997, 8:58 PM CDT (01:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1997, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hall County, NE, Hamilton County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 1724 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRI 120158 RRA TORGRI NEC079-081-120245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 858 PM CDT WED JUN 11 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...HALL COUNTY...WESTERN HAMILTON COUNTY A TORNADO IS POSSIBLE TO MOVE NEAR THE GRAND ISLAND...ALDA AND DONIPHAN AREA BY 945 PM. AT 855 PM RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR ALDA OR 6 MILES WEST OF GRAND ISLAND. SPOTTERS ARE ALSO INDICATING A POSSIBLE TORNADO JUST SOUTH OF GRAND ISLAND. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STORM MAY REACH THE PHILLIPS AND GILTNER AREA BY 945 PM AS WELL. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE COVER NOW. 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. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER NOW. &
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, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Furnas | 35 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 |
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.