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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 22, 1998, 11:33 PM CDT for Phillips County, Rooks County, Kansas. It was in force for 62 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 22, 1998, 11:33 PM CDT (04:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 1998, 12:35 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Phillips County, KS, Rooks County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRI 230433 RRA TORGRI KSC147-163-230535- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1133 PM CDT FRI MAY 22 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR PEOPLE IN... ROOKS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS SOUTHERN PHILLIPS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS * UNTIL 1235 AM CDT * AT 1130 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 2 POSSIBLE TORNADOES...ONE LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH OF NORTON... AND ANOTHER 40 MILES SOUTH OF PHILLIPSBURG NEAR HILL CITY... MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LOGAN AND WEBSTER STATE PARK AROUND MIDNIGHT PHLLIPSBURG AROUND 1220 AM TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! DDN
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 22, 3:00 PM CDT, 8 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 22, 3:00 PM CDT, 8 hours 33 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 300 PM CDT FRI MAY 22 1998 ...SVR WX AND EXCESSIVE RAINFALL/FLOODING POTENTIAL MAIN FORECAST PROBLEM THIS PERIOD... 18Z SFC MAP SHOWING LOW PRESSURE NEAR HUTCHINSON KANSAS WITH COUNTER-CLOCKWISE ROTATION PINWHEELING THROUGHOUT THE CENTRAL PLAINS. DRY LINE FROM JUST WEST OF BLACK HILLS...THROUGH CENTRAL COLORADO...CURVING SOUTHEAST TO NORTH TEXAS. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE NO PROBLEM TODAY ACROSS CWA WITH WIDESPREAD DEWPOINTS IN THE LOW TO MID 60S (SLN AND MHK AROUND 70). UPPER AIR ANALYSIS AND H20 VAPOR IMG SHOWING STRONG/COLD (-25C) LOW OVER SALT LAKE CITY AND BROAD RIDGE OVER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY. THESE TWO FEATURES COMBINE TO PROVIDE MODERATE DIFFLUENCE ACROSS EASTERN NE...SUGGESTING THE POSSIBILITY OF ANOTHER ROUND OF MCC ACTIVITY TONIGHT ACROSS NORTHERN KANSAS/SOUTHERN NEBRASKA. SOME DISCREPANCIES NOTED IN THE HANDLING OF THE SFC LOW IN RESPONSE TO A DEVELOPING LOW LEE OF THE ROCKIES. ETA JUMPS SFC LOW INTO EAST CENTRAL COLORADO BY 0Z SAT...WHILE AVN LEAVES BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE FROM CENTRAL KS TO NORTH TEXAS. NGM UNREALISIC WITH CURRENT TREND AS IT PUSHES SFC LOW INTO SE NE BY 36 HRS. A COMPROMISE BETWEEN THE DEEPER ETA AND WEAKER/BROADER AVN SEEMS IN ORDER. ETA EJECTING SHORTWAVE ENERGY ACROSS SOUTHERN NEBRASKA AFTER SUNSET AND SHOULD TRIGGER NUMEROUS TWRS AGAIN TONIGHT. DEPENDING ON THE INTENSITY OF THIS WAVE...IT SHOULD ALSO HELP TO ERODE THE CAP ACROSS KANSAS CWA WITH THE LIKELIHOOD OF TRWS. MODERATE RISK EXTENDS WEST INTO CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN CWA SO EXPECT GOOD CHANCE OF STRONG/SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AGAIN TONIGHT. EXCESSIVE RAINFALL ACROSS MOST OF CWA ON DAY 1...SO SUGGEST FLOOD WATCH OVER GROUND SATURATED COUNTIES IN NE AS PER PHONE CONVERSATION WITH OMA. LACK OF RECENT RAIN IN KS COUNTIES DOES NOT WARRANT A WATCH AT THIS TIME. GRI TT 055/073/054/075 854- HEB TB 058/075/057/076 854- ODX TT 053/073/052/074 6542 LXN EE 052/072/053/073 742- BEL TB 059/080/060/080 743- PURDY
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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.