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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Omaha, NE

June 13, 1986Burt County, Dodge County, Washington County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1986, 11:28 PM CDT for Burt County, Dodge County, Washington County, Nebraska. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 1986, 11:28 PM CDT (04:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1986, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Burt County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Washington County, NE

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 37 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1986-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1986-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3599 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 8:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 13, 11:08 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
1105 PM CDT FRI JUN 13 1986

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 256 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT IN SOUTHWEST
NEBRASKA...

THUNDERSHOWERS MAY CONTINUE IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA TONIGHT BUT THE
CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER IN THAT AREA HAS DIMINISHED SUBSTANTIALLY.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 256 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT IN NEBRASKA
WEST OF KEARNEY.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 256 REMAINS IN EFFECT IN SOUTH CENTRAL
NEBRASKA UNTIL 1 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

ZONE 14...SOUTH CENTRAL
BUFFALO..HALL..HAMILTON..HOWARD..MERRICK..SHERMAN.

ZONE 15...SOUTHEAST
POLK..YORK.

ZONE 18...SOUTH CENTRAL BORDER
ADAMS..CLAY..FRA.NKLIN..KEARNEY..NUCKOLLS..WEBSTER.

ZONE 19...SOUTHEAST BORDER
FILLMORE..THAYER.

POWERS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 2:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXBurt, Washington4 hr
Jun 14, 2:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXDodge4 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Nebraska, 1986Every flash flood warning in 1986

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.