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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 2026, 7:34 PM CDT for Hamilton County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2026, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2026, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.0 in
County Hamilton County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 3058 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1287 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 7:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Merrick, Nance | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton | 41 min |
| Jul 8, 7:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Polk | 28 min |
| Jul 8, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton, York | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 8:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Hamilton, Merrick, York | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 8:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Hall | 30 min |
| Jul 8, 8:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | York | 36 min |
| Jul 8, 9:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | York | 31 min |
| Jul 8, 11:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Webster | 30 min |
| Jul 8, 11:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Thayer | 27 min |
| Jul 8, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Thayer | 52 min |
| Jul 8, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Webster | 31 min |
| Jul 8, 11:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GID | Thayer | 7 hr |
| Jul 9, 12:01 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Nuckolls | 29 min |
| Jul 9, 12:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GID | Nuckolls | 16 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.