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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 24, 1993, 8:56 PM CDT for Otoe County, Nebraska. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 1993, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1993, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Otoe County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 2494 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 292 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.2
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, 7:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
NEZ003-004-007-008-009-250230 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORFOLK NE 730 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR BOONE...COLFAX AND PLATTE COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT... ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... AT 725 PM CDT NORFOLK RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS WITH A FEW THUNDERSTORMS COVERING MOST OF NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA. ONE INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN ROCK COUNTY JUST TO THE NORTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF ROSE. THIS STORM WAS LIKELY PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN... SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. THE ENTIRE AREA OF RAIN WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. IN ADDITION A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MIDNIGHT FOR BOONE PLATTE AND COLFAX COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND POINTS SOUTH. BAKER
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 8:35 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jul 24, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Lancaster, Saline | 54 min |
| Jul 24, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Gage | 34 min |
| Jul 24, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Douglas | 29 min |
| Jul 24, 8:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Saline | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Sarpy | 35 min |
| Jul 24, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Johnson, Pawnee | 40 min |
| Jul 24, 8:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Lancaster | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 8:48 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Cass, Douglas, Sarpy, Saunders | 2 hr |
| Jul 24, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster, Seward | 66 min |
| Jul 24, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler | 38 min |
| Jul 24, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pawnee | 41 min |
| Jul 24, 10:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Nemaha | 28 min |
| Jul 24, 10:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Gage | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 11:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Saline | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills | 32 min |
| Jul 24, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 35 min |
| Jul 24, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills | 31 min |
| Jul 24, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Montgomery, Page | 30 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.