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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Omaha, NE

July 26, 1993Saline County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 26, 1993, 10:54 AM CDT for Saline County, Nebraska. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 26, 1993, 10:54 AM CDT (15:54 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 1993, 11:30 AM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Saline County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 299 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1993-07-26Temperature 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 12:00Z on 1993-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 277 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
1622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
277 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
448 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 12:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXNemaha41 min
Jul 26, 12:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXRichardson36 min

Nearby

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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.