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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Omaha, NE

June 5, 1992Butler County, Nebraska

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1992-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1992-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -38 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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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.