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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Omaha, NE

August 23, 1990Burt County, Dodge County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 1990, 8:52 PM CDT for Burt County, Dodge County, Nebraska. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 23, 1990, 8:52 PM CDT (01:52 UTC)
Expired: Aug 23, 1990, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 68 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 45 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3599 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KOMA 240152
SVROMA
NEC021-053-177-IAC085-240300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
852 PM CDT THU AUG 23 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
      BURT...NORTHEAST DODGE...WASHINGTON...

   IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF IOWA
      HARRISON...

AT 848 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 40 MILES
NORTHWEST OF OMAHA OR JUST NORTHEAST OF SCRIBNER NEBRASKA AND
20 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN OMAHA AROUND FT. CALHOUN AND
BLAIR MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.  THE TOWNS OF TEKAMAH...
OAKLAND  MISSOURI VALLEY AND LOGAN ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE
STORMS.

PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD GET INTO A REINFORCED SHELTER AND
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE HAIL GREATER THAN 3/4 INCH IN
DIAMETER AND DESTRUCTIVE WINDS.  STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM AREAS
WITH LOOSE ITEMS THAT COULD BECOME DANGEROUS FLYING DEBRIS.

WIESE

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, Aug 23, 5:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before

NEZ003-004-007-008-009-232315-

WEATHER UPDATE FOR NORTHCENTRAL AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
525 PM CDT THU AUG 23 1990

AT 520 THIS AFTERNOON NORFOLK RADAR INDICATED A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
DEVELOPING FROM 20 TO 80 MILES WEST THROUGH SOUTHWEST OF NORFOLK.  THE
STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 MPH.

ONE STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR TILDEN...OR ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF
NORFOLK.  HAIL WAS INDICATED WITH THIS STORM...AS WAS INTENSE RAINFALL.
THIS STORM WILL LIKELY MOVE ACROSS TILDEN AND NEAR MEADOW GROVE BY 6 PM.

ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS ABOUT 60 MILES WEST OF NORFOLK NEAR BARTLETT.
THIS STORM WILL LIKELY MOVE ACROSS THE CLEARWATER AREA NORTHWEST OF
NELIGH BY 6 PM.

PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR VERY HEAVY RAIN...
STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY HAIL.  LOCAL SMALL STREAM AND STREET
FLOODING COULD ALSO OCCUR FROM THE VERY HEAVY RAIN IN THE VICINITY OF
THESE STORMS.  MzOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE OVER AREAS WITH WATER
RUNNING OVER THE ROAD.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOVE SLOWLY
NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH ABOUT MIDNIGHT.

DK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 23, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Lancaster	40 min
Aug 23, 7:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saunders	57 min
Aug 23, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Washington	48 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.