Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1999
Tornado Warning 43, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 1999, 9:24 PM CDT for Kearney County, Nebraska. 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
- Jun 23, 1999, 9:24 PM CDT (02:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1999, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kearney County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 9:32 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Axtell, 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 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 5.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Kearney | 60 min |
| Jun 23, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Kearney | 31 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.