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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Omaha, NE

August 19, 1987Saunders County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1987, 11:56 AM CDT for Saunders County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 min. 3 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
Aug 19, 1987, 11:56 AM CDT (16:56 UTC)
Expired
Aug 19, 1987, 1:00 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Saunders 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 19, 12:30 PM CDTHail 1Saunders, NE
Aug 19, 12:30 PM CDTHail 1Saunders, NE
Aug 19, 12:30 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 0Saunders, 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 25 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 12:00Z on 1987-08-19Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1987-08-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 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
3585 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 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
Aug 19, 9:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXButler45 min
Aug 19, 11:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXDodge70 min
Aug 19, 11:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXButler41 min
Aug 19, 12:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXLancaster27 min
Aug 19, 1:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCass59 min
Aug 19, 1:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXNemaha, Otoe65 min
Aug 19, 2:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXRichardson55 min
Aug 19, 2:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMontgomery, Page55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987

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.