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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Omaha, NE

June 16, 1990Burt County, Dodge County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1990, 8:47 PM CDT for Burt County, Dodge County, Nebraska. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 1990, 8:47 PM CDT (01:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 1990, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Burt County, NE, Dodge 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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 310 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3235 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1012 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 260 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.2
Supercell composite: 14.2

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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 16, 3:24 PM CDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:25 PM CDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 16, 5:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
510 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 1990

TIME           EVENT

400 PM CDT     MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT CROFTON IN KNOX COUNTY.

433 PM CDT     FUNNEL CLOUD 20 NORTH OF O |NEILL IN HOLT COUTNY.

435-445 PM CDT SEVERAL BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS APPROXIMATELY 15 MILES
               NORTH OF O NEILL IN HOLT COUNTY.  POWER LINES DOWN.

458 PM CDT     FUNNEL CLOUD 7 SOUTHWEST OF PAGE IN HOLT COUNTY
BOWMAN

Local storm report, Jun 16, 6:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
650 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 1990

TIME           EVENT

500 PM CDT     TORNADO 3 TO 4 MILES WEST OF O NEILL IN HOLT COUNTY.
               TWO FARMS DAMAGED...)SEVERAL BUILDINGS GONE.

505 PM CDT     FUNNEL CLOUD OV VERDIGRE IN KNOX COUNTY.
BOWMAN

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 7:59 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

NEZ010-170100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
755 PM CDT SAT JUN 16 1990

...TORNADO WATCH 479 EASTERN NEBRASKA/WESTERN IOWA UNTIL 1AM CDT...
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT EASTERN NEBRASKA/WESTERN IOWA...

AT 745 PM CDT...OMAHA RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDED FROM SOUTHWEST OF COLUBMBUS  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NO
LONGER A THREAT.  FLASH FLOODING IS STILL A MAJOR THREAT IN MUCH OF
NORTHEAST NEBRASKA WHERE HEAVY RAINS ARE FALLING.  HEAVY RAIN IS
STILL POSSIBLE LATER TONIGHT IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA.

POLLACK

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 8:08 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Washington	43 min
Jun 16, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saline	68 min
Jun 16, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Lancaster	68 min
Jun 16, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass, Sarpy	64 min
Jun 16, 10:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Jefferson, Saline	46 min
Jun 16, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Douglas, Washington	55 min
Jun 16, 10:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Mills, Pottawattamie	65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1990 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

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.