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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Hastings, NE

May 19, 1998Howard County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 19, 1998, 10:25 PM CDT for Howard County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report 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: May 19, 1998, 10:25 PM CDT (03:25 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1998, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Howard County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 19, 10:58 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	St Paul, 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
May 19, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 1851 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1719 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 8.7

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The text

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

867 
WFUS1 KGRI 200329 RRA
TORGRI
NEC093-200415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1025 PM CDT TUE MAY 19 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR PEOPLE IN...
     NORTHERN HOWARD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 1115 PM

* AT 1019 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A POSSIBLE TORNADO 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND...OR 2 
MILES   NORTHWEST OF ELBA. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ELBA AT 1025 PM
  
TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT. IF A BASEMENT IS NOT
AVAILABLE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE
LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN HASTINGS
NE.

DEG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley, Howard	48 min
May 19, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	47 min
May 19, 11:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Howard	46 min
May 19, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Sherman, Valley	61 min
May 19, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	61 min
May 19, 11:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley	47 min
May 19, 11:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard	50 min
May 20, 12:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall	46 min
May 20, 12:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Merrick, Nance	47 min
May 20, 12:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams	53 min
May 20, 12:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hamilton	53 min
May 20, 1:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Clay	49 min
May 20, 1:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall	43 min
May 20, 1:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Polk, York	46 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.