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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Omaha, NE

June 24, 19874 counties in Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1987, 7:12 PM CDT for 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports 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, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1987, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Saline 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
Jun 24, 7:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Lancaster, 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 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, 4 hours 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before

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, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 6:20 PM CDT, 52 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, 35 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....
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ZONE 3...NORTH CENTRAL BORDER
BOYD...BROWN...HOLT...KEYA PAHA...ROCK.
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ZONE 4...NORTHEAST BORDER
ANTELOPE...CEDAR...KNOX...PIERCE...WAYNE.
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ZONE 7...CENTRAL
BLAINE...LOUP...CUSTER.
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ZONE 8...NORTHEAST CENTRAL
GARFIELD...GREELEY...VALLEY...WHEELER.
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ZONE 9...NORTHEAST
BOONE...MADISON...PLATTE...STANTON.
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ZONE 13...SOUTHWEST CENTRAL
DAWSON.
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ZONE 14...SOUTH CENTRAL
BUFFALO...HALL...HOWARD...MERRICK...NANCE...SHERMAN.
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ZONE 17...SOUTHWEST BORDER
FRONTIER...FURNAS...GOSPER...HARLAN...PHELPS...RED WILLOW.
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ZONE 18...SOUTH CENTRAL BORDER
ADAMS...FRANKLIN...KEARNEY...
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THE LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED THROUGH THIS AREA AND THE
RISK OF SEVER WEATHER HAS ENDED.

GW

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 6:52 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
650 PM CDT WED JUN 24 1987

AT 650 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE OMAHA
COUNCIL BLUFFS AREA SOUTH ABOUT 15 MILES TO WEST OF BELLEVUE NEBRASKA.

REPORTS OF PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND 35 TO 45 MPH WINDS HAVE BEEN
RECEIVED IN THE OMAHA METRO AREA.

PEOPLE IN DOUGLAS AND SARPY COUNTY OF EAST NEBRASKA AND POTTAWATTAMIE
AND MILLS COUNTY OF WEST IOWA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE CONDITIONS
THROUGH 750 PM CDT...

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 258 CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR
EAST NEBRASKA AND WEST IOWA.  PEOPLE SHOULD FEEP WEATHER ALERT AND
BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF WEATHER THREATENS.
GW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 7:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Gage, Lancaster, Saline	22 min
Jun 24, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass, Sarpy	55 min
Jun 24, 8:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Otoe	53 min
Jun 24, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	52 min
Jun 24, 7:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	55 min
Jun 24, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie	51 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data.