Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 1998, 6:22 PM CDT for Hall County, Nebraska. It was in force for 23 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
- Apr 14, 1998, 6:22 PM CDT (23:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 1998, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hall County, NE
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 738 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 577 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
287 WFUS1 KGRI 142322 TORGRI NEC079-142355- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 622 PM CDT TUE APR 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...EASTERN HALL AT 620 PM CDT... LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTH OF GRAND ISLAND OR 3 MILES SOUTH OF DONIPHAN MOVING NORTH AT 2O MPH. THE TORNADO WILL REACH DONIPHAN BY 625 AND GRAND ISLAND BY 640 PM... MOVE TO SHELTER NOW... A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND GO TO THE BASEMENT IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. JAB/LEW
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 Apr 14, 2:09 PM CDT, 4 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 2:09 PM CDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 209 PM CDT TUE APR 14 1998 FIRST PROBLEM IS INITIAL PERIOD SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL. 18Z SURFACE MAP DEPICTS BOUNDARY INTO SOUTHEAST CWFA. SOUTHEAST OF BOUNDARY TEMPERATURES INTO THE LOWER 70S WITH STRENGTHENING SOUTHEAST WIND FIELD. PROFILER DATA (SLIGHTLY OLD) WITH STRONG VEERING AT FBY AT 15Z THIS MORNING. SUFACE LOW IS DEEPENING JUST SW OF KHLC WITH STATIONARY DRY LINE TO MEDICINE LODGE. SURFACE DEWPOINTS INCREASE TO 50+ IN A RIBBON FROM WICHITA TO NORTHEAST OF KHLC. INHIBITION PARAMETERS LOOK TO BE WEAKENING SLIGHTLY NEAR MAX SFC CONVERGENCE AS CU FIELDS DEVELOPS NEAR PHILLIPSBURG. LATEST RUC COINCIDES THESE FEATURES WELL WITH INCREASING UPPER DIVERGENCE AND LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE FIELDS MOVING ACROSS CWFA AND INTO SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA BY EARLY EVENING. RIBBON OF 10C H85 DEWPOINTS MOVE NEAR THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF OUR CWFA BY 00Z. ALTHOUGH LIMITED MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY INITIALLY...DYNAMIC PARAMETERS LOOK FAVORABLE FOR LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING EPISODE OF SEVERE FOR SOUTHEAST CWFA. WILL DELAY OPUGRI PRODUCT AS LONG AS POSSIBLE OR UNTIL ANY OFFICAL NOTICE GIVEN. FINALLY...LOW FFG VALUES IN A FEW COUNTIES OF SOUTEAST CWFA...ALONG WITH 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN TWO NIGHTS AGO MAY CAUSE A PROBLEM THERE. QUICKLY...VERY DISTINCT CHANGES IN WEATHER BY LATE TONIGHT AS UPPER LOW AND SURFACE MOVE EAST WRAPPING STRONG NNE WINDS ACROSS CWFA. H7 LOW MOVING EAST AT 36HRS WILL REQUIRE HIHG POPS THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. COLD ENOUGH AIR OVERNIGHT WEDNESDAY TO MIX/CHANGE TO SNOW IN NORTHWEST CWFA. AMOUNTS LIMITED THOUGH. HAVE LITTLE PROBLEM WITH COLD GUIDANCE TEMPERATURES AND MAY UNDER SOME IN SPOTS. GRI NN 040/048/033/046 ++62 LXN NN 038/046/030/046 ++6- ODX NN 038/044/030/046 +++3 HBR NN 045/052/035/048 +++3 BLT NN 048/058/038/048 +762 MORITZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 46 min |
| Apr 14, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Dawson | 40 min |
| Apr 14, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 43 min |
| Apr 14, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 37 min |
| Apr 14, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton, Merrick | 37 min |
| Apr 14, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hall | 29 min |
| Apr 14, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton | 32 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.