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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1989, 6:49 PM CDT for Saunders County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1989, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1989, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3604 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KOMA 072349
TOROMA
NEC155-080015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
649 PM CDT WED JUN 7 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
SAUNDERS
AT 745 PM CDT A NEW TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE COUNTY
....WITH RADAR SHOWING THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM THAT EARLIER
PRODUCED A TOUCH DOWN NEAR MALMO AND COLON WAS CENTERED NEAR
WAHOO NEBRASKA...35 MILES WEST OF OMAHA AND MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 15 MPH.
PERSONS IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT IF
AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR. CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED.
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY
TO SAVE YOUR LIVES.
BYRDWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 7, 4:14 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE 410 PM CDT WED JUN 07 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS INCREASE IN NUMBER OVER NORTHEAST NEBRASKA... AT 405 PM CDT THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. ONE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS CENTERED ALONG A LINE FROM NEAR SIOUX CITY...THROUGH THE NORFOLK AREA...TO ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORFOLK. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM 25 MILES EAST OF NORFOLK TO NEAR COLUMBUS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. MOST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING ONLY LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN BUT THE HEAVIER OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE SOME SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. BOWMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Saunders | 30 min |
| Jun 7, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Dodge, Douglas | 38 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.