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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Hastings, NE

April 14, 1998Hall County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 1998, 6:46 PM CDT for Hall County, Nebraska. It was in force for 29 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, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
Expired
Apr 14, 1998, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
29 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 14, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1998-04-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1998-04-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

371 
WFUS1 KGRI 142346
TORGRI
NEC079-150015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
646 PM CDT TUE APR 14 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

   ...HALL

AT 642 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THREE POSSIBLE TORNADOES
IN HALL COUNTY...ONE 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND NEAR
ALDA...A SECOND JUST EAST OF THE POWER PLANT SOUTH OF GRAND ISLAND
AND A THIRD 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WOOD RIVER.  ALL MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 25 MPH.

PEOPLE IN HALL COUNTY MOVE SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY NOW.

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

JAB/LEW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 14, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson46 min
Apr 14, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Dawson40 min
Apr 14, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo43 min
Apr 14, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFurnas37 min
Apr 14, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHamilton, Merrick37 min
Apr 14, 6:22 PM CDTTornado WarningGIDHall23 min
Apr 14, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHamilton32 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.