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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Omaha, NE

April 13, 1986Gage County, Lancaster County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 1986, 7:28 PM CST for Gage County, Lancaster County, Nebraska. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 13, 1986, 7:28 PM CST (01:28 UTC)
Expired
Apr 13, 1986, 8:30 PM CST
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Gage County, NE, Lancaster 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 336 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1986-04-14Temperature 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1986-04-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -193 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
1298 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-193 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-5 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 13, 6:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSaline46 min
Apr 13, 6:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXJefferson51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1986Every severe thunderstorm 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.