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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Omaha, NE

April 30, 1986Pottawattamie County, Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 1986, 7:59 PM CDT for Pottawattamie County, Iowa. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 30, 1986, 7:59 PM CDT (00:59 UTC)
Expired
Apr 30, 1986, 8:55 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Pottawattamie County, IA

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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 69 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 1986-05-01Temperature 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 1986-05-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -33 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
3528 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.