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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Hastings, NE

September 25, 1998Buffalo County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 1998, 5:17 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 min. 2 reports 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: Sep 25, 1998, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired: Sep 25, 1998, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Buffalo County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 25, 5:23 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 87	Elm Creek, NE
Sep 25, 5:47 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Pleasanton, 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 nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 690 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -394 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1180 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 263 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

223 
WFUS1 KGRI 252221 RRA
TORGRI
NEC019-252300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
517 PM CDT FRI SEP 25 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS NE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR PEOPLE IN...
     WESTERN BUFFALO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 600 PM 

* AT 515 PM....DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 16 MILES 
  WEST OF KEARNEY...OR 3 MILES SOUTH OF ELM CREEK...MOVING   
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR.

PLEASANTON...AMHERST...RIVERDALE...MILLER...ODESSA...ELM CREEK ARE 
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM.  THE TOWN OF KEARNEY IS 
NOT INCLUDED IN THIS WARNING. 

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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 25, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Furnas	39 min
Sep 25, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phelps	46 min
Sep 25, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Sherman	57 min
Sep 25, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Buffalo, Hall	32 min
Sep 25, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Howard	65 min
Sep 25, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Greeley, Nance	34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.