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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Omaha, NE

May 16, 1995Saline County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 4:17 PM CDT for Saline County, Nebraska. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 16, 1995, 4:17 PM CDT (21:17 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Saline County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 110 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 243 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -564 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1111 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 16, 2:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
215 PM CDT TUE MAY  16 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....LOCATION.....      STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...

1100 AM    STAPLEHURST

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 10:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler, Seward	60 min
May 16, 11:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Lancaster, Saunders, Seward	47 min
May 16, 11:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Douglas, Sarpy	65 min
May 16, 11:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass, Sarpy	46 min
May 16, 4:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Jefferson	38 min
May 16, 5:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Gage	50 min
May 16, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Pawnee	46 min
May 16, 12:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Mills	41 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.