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Tornado Warning 57, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Oct 16, 1998, 6:37 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Dawson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 38 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
- Oct 16, 1998, 6:37 PM CDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 16, 1998, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Buffalo County, NE, Dawson County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Elm Creek, NE | |
| Oct 16, 6:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Overton, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 658 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1017 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
697 WFUS1 KGRI 162338 RRA TORGRI NEC019-047-170015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 637 PM CDT FRI OCT 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR PEOPLE IN... WESTERN BUFFALO IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA SOUTHEASTERN DAWSON IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 635 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOLDREGE OR 8 MILES SOUTHWEST ELM CREEK... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ELM CREEK BY 645 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. KD/LEW
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 Oct 16, 2:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 16, 2:15 PM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 215 PM CDT FRI OCT 16 1998 MIDDAY SFC CHART HAS DEEPENING LOW IN COLO WITH AN INVERTED TROF/WARM FRONT FROM SE SD INTO THE COLO LOW. 60+ DEW POINTS TO THE SOUTH OF THE BOUNDRY. UEX 88D SHOWING TRW DEVELOPING AND TO THE WEST GLD/LBF ARE ALREADY ISSUING WARNINGS. UA ANAL HAS CLOSED LOW AT 5H NEAR SLC VERY CLOSE TO WHERE THE ETA HAS ADVERTISED THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS. 7H LOW IN SW WY. 85H HAS DEW POINTS >+10 FROM MN TO TX. OBVIOUS FCST PROBLEMS ARE CHANCES OF SVR WX THIS EVENING AND TIMING AND MOVEMENT OF THE UPPER LOW AND SFC FRONT. ALTHOUGH MODELS ARE IN FAIR AGREEMENT WITH THE OVERALL PATTERN THERE ARE SOME DIFFERENCES WITH THE FINER DETAILS. THE MAIN DIFFERENCE IS THE ETA MOVING THE SFC LOW QUICKLY OFF TO THE NE ON SATURDAY. THE NGM/AVN ARE SLOWER AND AS A RESULT SUGGEST PRECIPITATION LINGERING LONGER ACROSS THE CWA ON SATURDAY. ALL MODELS INDICATE DRYING ON SUNDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE AND CAA SETTLE IN. LOOKS LIKE IT WILL GO FROM WINDY FROM THE SOUTH TO WINDY FROM THE NORTH. THERE WILL BE WEAK ISENTROPIC LIFT AND 3H DIVERGENCE OVER PORTIONS OF THE CWA UNTIL AROUND MIDNjIGHT SO WITH ALL THE ELEMENTS IN PLACE CANNOT RULE OUT CHANCE OF SEVERE. TEND TO THINK WE WILL HAVE SOME SHOWERS FOR AT LEAST SOME OF SATURDAY SO WILL HAVE POPS AGAIN. .GID...NONE. GRIFFITH
In the hours before
Local storm report, Oct 16, 5:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
519 PM CDT FRI OCT 16 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0500 PM 4 S WILSONVILLE NE 0.75 INCH HAIL
10/16/98 FURNAS
KDLocal storm report, Oct 16, 5:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
519 PM CDT FRI OCT 16 1998
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0500 PM 4 S WILSONVILLE NE 0.75 INCH HAIL
10/16/98 FURNAS
KDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 4:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 39 min |
| Oct 16, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 57 min |
| Oct 16, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 37 min |
| Oct 16, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper, Phelps | 59 min |
| Oct 16, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 30 min |
| Oct 16, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phelps | 30 min |
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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.