Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 31, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 24, 1992, 3:31 PM CDT for Johnson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 1992, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1992, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Johnson County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOVN), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 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
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, Jul 24, 11:36 AM CDT, 3 hours 55 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 44 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.
SCHLACHTERSpecial weather statement, Jul 24, 2:21 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 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.
SCHLACHTERSpecial weather statement, Jul 24, 3:14 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
NEZ015-019-242145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LINCOLN NE 315 PM CDT FRI JUL 24 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN LANCASTER COUNTY...NORTHERN GAGE... EASTERN FILLMORE AND CENTRAL SEWARD COUNTIES... AT 310 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORMS FROM EASTERN FILLMORE COUNTY EAST INTO CENTRAL SALINE THROUGH SOUTHERN LANCASTER COUNTY AND INTO OTOE AND CASS COUNTIES. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOjVING 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, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Otoe | 67 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 |
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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.