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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Omaha, NE

April 8, 1995Madison County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1995, 6:25 PM CDT for Madison County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 8, 1995, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired
Apr 8, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Madison County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 122 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 1995-04-08Temperature 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 1995-04-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 124 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
544 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
224 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KOMA 082325 RRA
SVROMA
NEC119-090000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
625 PM CDT SAT APR 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA
 
   ...MADISON COUNTY
 
AT 625 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS
SOUTHERN MADISON COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE EAST NORTHEAST AT
25 MILES AN HOUR...PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...INCLUDING
THE COMMUNITY OF MADISON...SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR 3/4 INCH HAIL
AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS.
 
PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD GET INTO A REINFORCED SHELTER AND
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
 
 
ZAPOTOCNY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 8, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXRichardson57 min
Apr 8, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCuming, Thurston32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.