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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Hastings, NE

June 13, 1998Webster County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1998, 5:44 PM CDT for Webster County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 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: Jun 13, 1998, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1998, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Webster County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 13, 5:45 PM CDT	Hail 4.5	Red Cloud, 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
Jun 13, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 206 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2202 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 125 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.

205 
WFUS1 KGRI 132247 RRA
TORGRI
NEC181-132315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
544 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR PEOPLE IN...
  WEBSTER COUNTY IN NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT.

* AT 540 PM CDT....DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED A
  POSSIBLE TORNADO 35 MILES SOUTH OF HASTINGS...OR 4 MILES EAST OF
  RED CLOUD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  COWLES AT 550 PM CDT.
  ROSEMONT AT 610 PM CDT.

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.

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

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR KANSAS. AND
NEBRASKA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
FOR KANSAS. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
FOR KANSAS. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
FOR KANSAS. AND NEBRASKA.

DEG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Franklin	41 min
Jun 13, 4:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Franklin	49 min
Jun 13, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Kearney	40 min
Jun 13, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Adams	49 min
Jun 13, 5:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Webster	29 min
Jun 13, 5:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Gosper	41 min
Jun 13, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Hall	46 min
Jun 13, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Nuckolls	44 min
Jun 13, 5:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Dawson, Phelps	38 min
Jun 13, 5:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Nuckolls	50 min
Jun 13, 6:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Adams	29 min
Jun 13, 6:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Buffalo	37 min
Jun 13, 6:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GID	Thayer	48 min
Jun 13, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Dawson	43 min
Jun 13, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo	30 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 1998 Every tornado warning in 1998 Tornadoes in 1998

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.