Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1992, 6:21 PM CDT for Butler County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1992, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1992, 6:56 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butler County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOVN), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 2671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 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 5, 3:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
NEZ009-052130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE 345 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE OVER SOUTHWEST BOONE COUNTY THROUGH 430 PM CDT... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WILL MOVE EAST OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST BOONE COUNTY THROUGH 430 PM CDT. THE STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF CEDAR RAPIDS OR ABOUT 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBUS. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND SHOULD PASS NEAR OR JUST SOUTH OF CEDAR RAPIDS BEFORE POSSIBLY REACHING ST EDWARD BY 430 PM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES BY. TDK
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 6:14 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
NEZ015-019-060015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN NE 614 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 11 PM FOR SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA... AT 607 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST BUTLER COUNTY..TO THE NORTHWEST OF DAVID CITY. SMALL HAIL.. DANGEROUS LIGHTENING AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. ALSO A TORNADO WARNING WAS ISSUED FOR NORTHEAST POLK COUNTY..RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES NORTH-NORTHEAST OF OSCEOLA. OSCEOLA IS 20 MILES EAST OF DAVID CITY. PEOPLE IN BUTLER COUNTY SHOULD BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS..SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE DEVE>LOPING WEATHER SITUATION. GROSSHANS
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 6:20 PM CDT, 1 minute before
NEZ007-012-013-016-017-060200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 620 PM CDT FRI JUN 5 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 297 FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRAKSA CANCELLED... ...TORNADO WATCH REMA9INS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL AND PARTS OF SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA... BY 6PM CDT...A COLD FRONT HAS MOVED INTO CENTRAL NEBRASKA. THEREFORE... ...THE THREAT OF TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NO LONGER EXISTS FOR SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA. ANDERSON
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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.