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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Omaha, NE

July 24, 1992Cass County, Otoe County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1992, 2:53 PM CDT for Cass County, Otoe County, Nebraska. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 24, 1992, 2:53 PM CDT (19:53 UTC)
Expired: Jul 24, 1992, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cass County, NE, Otoe County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOVN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 63 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: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 189 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.

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, Jul 24, 11:36 AM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before

NEZ004-009-241700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE
1135 AM CDT FRI JUL 24 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN COLFAX COUNTY LATE THIS
   MORNING...

AT 1130 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES
EAST OF COLUMBUS...OR NEAR SCHUYLER.

THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL
LIKELY PRODUCE SOME DEADLY LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND MAYBE EVEN
SOME SMA`LL HAIL.

IT WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN AND EASTERN COLFAX COUNTY
THROUGH NOON.

TDK

Special weather statement, Jul 24, 1:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

NEZ015-019-241945-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN NE
145 PM CDT FRI JUL 24 1992

...A THUNDERSTORM MOVING OVER THE CITY OF LINCOLN AND INTO
     SOUTHERN LANCASTER COUNTY...

AT 145 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM FROM SOUTHERN SALINE
COUNTY NEAR WESTERN NORTHEAST INTO LANCASTER COUNTY OVER THE CITY
OF LINCOLN. THIS  THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT
25 MPH.

DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN IS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM.  PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD SEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY.

SCHLACHTER

Special weather statement, Jul 24, 2:21 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

NEZ015-019-242045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN NE
220 PM CDT FRI JUL 24 1992

...THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH THE CITY OF LINCOLN SOUTHERN
         LANCASTER COUNTY...

AT 220 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM FROM CENTRAL SALINE
COUNTY NORTH OF WESTERN WHICH IS 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LINCOLN
NORTHEAST INTO CASS COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF GREENWOOD WHICH IS
15 MILES NORTHEAST OF LINCOLN.  THESET THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING
TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN IS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM.  PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD SEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY.

SCHLACHTER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 24, 1:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Dodge	47 min
Jul 24, 1:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Douglas, Washington	67 min
Jul 24, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass, Saunders	35 min
Jul 24, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Sarpy	55 min
Jul 24, 1:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Douglas, Washington	33 min
Jul 24, 3:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Johnson	29 min
Jul 24, 3:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Otoe	4 hr
Jul 24, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Lancaster	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1992 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.