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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Omaha, NE

July 14, 1995Mills County, Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1995, 3:18 PM CDT for Mills County, Iowa. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 14, 1995, 3:18 PM CDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1995, 3:49 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Mills County, IA

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 70 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 1995-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2448 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 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
2448 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1394 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
101 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXButler, Seward41 min
Jul 13, 9:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMonona63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.