Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 2, 1999, 6:03 PM CDT for Adams County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 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
- May 2, 1999, 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 1999, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Adams County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Kenesaw, NE | |
| May 2, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Kenesaw, 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 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 022304 RRA TORGRI NEC001-022330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 603 PM CDT SUN MAY 2 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR PEOPLE IN... NORTHWESTERN ADAMS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 601 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 19 MILES WEST OF HASTINGS...OR 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KENESAW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... KENESAW AT 615 PM IF IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...LEAVE IT IMMEDIATELY AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH AND COV ER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 3:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Gosper | 33 min |
| May 2, 4:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Dawson | 28 min |
| May 2, 4:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Harlan, Kearney, Phelps | 42 min |
| May 2, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Franklin | 35 min |
| May 2, 5:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Kearney | 22 min |
| May 2, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Franklin | 47 min |
| May 2, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Kearney | 53 min |
| May 2, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo | 47 min |
| May 2, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hall | 48 min |
| May 2, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Adams | 44 min |
| May 2, 6:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo, Sherman | 46 min |
| May 2, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Webster | 52 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.