Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1987, 6:37 PM CDT for Saline County, Seward County, Nebraska. It was in force for 68 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 24, 1987, 6:37 PM CDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1987, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Saline County, NE, Seward County, NE
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Saline, 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. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3614 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 severe thunderstorm 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 24, 2:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE 325 PM CDT WED JUN 24 1987 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN NEBRASKA UNTIL 7PM CDT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 5:55 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jun 24, 6:20 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 620 PM CDT WED JUN 24 1987 AT 620 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM JUST WEST OF BELLEVUE SOUTH TOWARDS WEEPING WATER NEBRASKA OR ABOUT 10 TO 25 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF THE OMAHA METRO AREA. PEOPLE IN SARPY..CASS..AND DOUGLAS COUNTIES OF EAST NEBRASKA AND WEST POTTAWATTAMIE AND MILLS COUNTY OF WEST IOWA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS FROM THESE STORMS THROUGH 720 PM CDT. PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT ELMWWOD NEBRASKA WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. OTHER STRONGER STORMS ALSO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP FROM AROUND BLAIR NEBRASKA TO MONDAMIN IOWA ABOUT 25 MILES NORTH OF OMAHA AND JUST SOUTHWEST OF FREMONT OR ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF OMAHA. TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 258 CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR EAST NEBRASKA AND WEST IOWA. GW
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 6:37 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 640 PM CDT WED JUN 24 1987 TORDNDO WATCH NUMBER 256 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS OF CENTRAL AND EAST NEBRASKA.... < ZONE 3...NORTH CENTRAL BORDER BOYD...BROWN...HOLT...KEYA PAHA...ROCK. < ZONE 4...NORTHEAST BORDER ANTELOPE...CEDAR...KNOX...PIERCE...WAYNE. < ZONE 7...CENTRAL BLAINE...LOUP...CUSTER. < ZONE 8...NORTHEAST CENTRAL GARFIELD...GREELEY...VALLEY...WHEELER. < ZONE 9...NORTHEAST BOONE...MADISON...PLATTE...STANTON. < ZONE 13...SOUTHWEST CENTRAL DAWSON. < ZONE 14...SOUTH CENTRAL BUFFALO...HALL...HOWARD...MERRICK...NANCE...SHERMAN. < ZONE 17...SOUTHWEST BORDER FRONTIER...FURNAS...GOSPER...HARLAN...PHELPS...RED WILLOW. < ZONE 18...SOUTH CENTRAL BORDER ADAMS...FRANKLIN...KEARNEY... < THE LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED THROUGH THIS AREA AND THE RISK OF SEVER WEATHER HAS ENDED. GW
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.