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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Hastings, NE

May 19, 1998Howard County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 19, 1998, 11:14 PM CDT for Howard County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 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: May 19, 1998, 11:14 PM CDT (04:14 UTC)
Expired: May 20, 1998, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Howard 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
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, 4.2 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.

064 
WFUS1 KGRI 200418 RRA
TORGRI
NEC093-200500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1114 PM CDT TUE MAY 19 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR PEOPLE IN...
  EASTERN HOWARD IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT

* AT 1110 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO 22 NORTH OF GRAND ISLAND OR 2 MILES NORTH OF ST PAUL...
  MOVEMENT WAS STATIONARY.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO EFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF ST PAUL
  AND CUSHING AREA THROUGH 1200 AM.

  ABANDON MOBILE HOMES GO IN A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING. AS A LAST
  RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD.

PURDY

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 May 19, 2:07 PM CDT, 9 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 2:07 PM CDT, 9 hours 7 minutes before

CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
205 PM CDT TUE MAY 18 1998

THE HASTINGS STAFF IS INVOLVED IN ON-STATION TRAINING TODAY AND NO
DETAILED FORECAST DISCUSSION IS AVAILABLE VIA THIS PRODUCT.

PLEASE REFERENCE OMASFDOMA AND TOPAFDTOP FOR FORECAST INFORMATION
REGARDING SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. THANK YOU.

BREWSTER

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, 10:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Howard	50 min
May 19, 10:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.