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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Omaha, NE

June 18, 1990Dodge County, Saunders County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 1990, 7:53 PM CDT for Dodge County, Saunders County, Nebraska. It was in force for 22 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 1990, 7:53 PM CDT (00:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 1990, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dodge County, NE, 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 00:00Z, 0.9 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-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: 3604 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 281 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 190053
TOROMA
NEC053-155-190115-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
753 PM CDT MON JUN 18 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF NEBRASKA
      DODGE...NORTHERN SAUNDERS

AT 750 PM CDT A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR ABOUT 5 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF NORTH BEND NE IN NORTHWEST SAUNDERS COUNTY MOVING
NORTHEAST ABOUT 30 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 GET TO A SAFE PLACE...
SUCH AS A BASEMENT TO SAVE YOUR LIVES...THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.

IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THIJS STORM.  GET
TO YOUR BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM SHELTER.  AVOID WINDOWS AND
PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

PERSONS IN NORTH BEND SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY
THE STORM MAY MOVE TOWARD HOOOPER.

POWERS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler, Seward	49 min
Jun 18, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Douglas, Sarpy	60 min
Jun 18, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Washington	65 min
Jun 18, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saunders	65 min
Jun 18, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler, Seward	31 min
Jun 18, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Dodge, Douglas, Saunders, Washington	57 min
Jun 18, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass, Sarpy	61 min
Jun 18, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler	28 min
Jun 18, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Dodge, Saunders	64 min
Jun 18, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Washington	26 min
Jun 18, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Washington	37 min
Jun 19, 2:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Pawnee	64 min
Jun 19, 3:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Richardson	38 min

Nearby

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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.