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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 14, 1999, 11:39 PM CDT for Jewell County, Smith County, Kansas. It was in force for 36 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
- May 14, 1999, 11:39 PM CDT (04:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 1999, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jewell County, KS, Smith County, KS
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 11:42 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Kensington, KS |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1070 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 14, 2:45 PM CDT, 8 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 14, 2:45 PM CDT, 8 hours 54 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 245 PM CDT FRI MAY 14 1999 MRNG UAA VERY SIMILIAR TO THU WITH UPR LOW OVR PAC NW WITH SHRTWV PLOUGHING ACRS GREAT BASIN. SFC LOW WAS CNTRD NR NERN CO TDA WITH LLVL MSTR IN PLACE AFT BEING DRUG NWD BY LAST NGTS MCS. TSRA WL RMN THE QN OF THE FP AS SHRTWVS MOVE OUT OF THE CNTRL ROCKIES AND OVR THE NRN PLAINS. CO/WRN KS SFC LOW NOT PROGD TO MOVE MUCH WITH FOCUSING WARM FNT EXPECTED NR NEB/KS BRDR THRU SAT NGT AS PCPN ENHANCES THE BNDRY. WITH ABUNDANT MSTR AND STEEP LAPSE RATES...ATMOSPHERE WL RMN UNSTABLE WITH MDLS DIFFERING IN MAGNITUDE. SEE SWO FOR DETAILS. LIMITING FACTOR...18Z LBF SOUNDING AND OAX 12Z SOUNDING RECORDED AN 8 DEG CAP. CLDS ARE SLOWLY ERODING OVR NWRN KS AND SWRN NEB AND AMOUNT OF HEATING THE BIG QN THRU THIS AFTN WITH ABOVE MENTIONED CAP. SVR TSTMS EXPECTED TO DVLP OVR WRN NEB LTR TDA IN NGM/ETA AREA OF MSTR CNVGNC WITH FOCUSED OMEGA FIELD FM INCRSG UPR DVRGNC AND WARM ADVCTN. MSTR CNVGNC PROG REASONABLE WITH BNDRY EVIDENT ON 18Z SFC ANALYSIS FM LOW NR CO/KS TO NR RAP. WL STAY WITH SCENARIO OF MCS PROPAGATION E/SEWD INTO CWA TNGT WITH NR 40 KT LLVL JET FOR SUSTENANCE. WRN CWA IS IN MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE. TSRA FIRING OVR NERN CO BY MID AFTN AND SHRA OVR WRN NEB IN AREA OF DIFFERENTIAL HEATING ON EDGE OF CLOUD MASS...WL STAY WITH LIKELY IN NEB COUNTIES AND CHC KS AREA. PTN UNCHANGED ON SAT WITH ETA KPG THE SFC LOW OVR NERN CO...NGM FURTHER N. EXPECT AFTN DVLPMNT AGAIN IN AREA OF MSTR CNVGNC OVR NWRN NEB AND ALNG WARM FNT NR NEB/KS STATELINE. WL KP IN CHC CATEGORIES FOR 2ND AND 3RD PDS WITH MENTION OF POSSIBLE SVR FOR PD 2. MUCH WL DEPEND ON WHAT TNGTS ACTIVITY LAYS DOWN IN THE WAY OF BNDRIES. NEB COUNTIES OF CWA UNDR MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE ON SAT. NE/SW FNT ACRS CNTRL PLAINS WITH EJECTING SHRTWVS FM UPR TROF OVR GREAT BASIN WL REQUIRE CHC POPS FOR SUN AND INTO EFP. .GID...NONE. 09
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper | 44 min |
| May 14, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 44 min |
| May 14, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Gosper | 29 min |
| May 14, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Phelps | 43 min |
| May 14, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan | 43 min |
| May 14, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper | 33 min |
| May 14, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 33 min |
| May 14, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Harlan, Kearney, Phelps | 47 min |
| May 14, 9:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 29 min |
| May 14, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Franklin, Kearney, Webster | 50 min |
| May 14, 9:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan | 33 min |
| May 14, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay, Nuckolls, Webster | 41 min |
| May 14, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin | 37 min |
| May 14, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Webster | 44 min |
| May 14, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 45 min |
| May 14, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 47 min |
| May 14, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Smith | 44 min |
| May 14, 11:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 29 min |
| May 14, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 41 min |
| May 15, 12:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Smith | 60 min |
| May 15, 12:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Rooks | 27 min |
| May 15, 12:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phillips | 42 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.