Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 25, 1995, 8:48 PM CDT for Gage County, Pawnee County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 25, 1995, 8:48 PM CDT (01:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 1995, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gage County, NE, Pawnee County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1006 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 307 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KOMA 260149 TOROMA NEC067-133-260215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 848 PM CDT TUE APR 25 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA/VALLEY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA ...SOUTHERN GAGE COUNTY...WESTERN PAWNEE COUNTY AT 845 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR THE TOWN OF WYMORE...OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF BEATRICE. THE TOWNS OF WYMORE...BLUE SPRINGS...AND BURCHARD ARE IN ITS PATH AS IT MOVES EAST AT 25 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES. ANDERSON
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, Apr 25, 4:10 PM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before
NEZ001>012-016>093-261200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 410 PM CDT (305 PM MDT) TUE APR 25 1995 ...WINTER TYPE WEATHER LIKELY PANHANDLE AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA TONIGHT... ANOTHER SPRING STORM WILL IMPACT NEBRASKA TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY. RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS IN THE PANHANDLE AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA WILL CHANGE TO SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT AS WINDS BECOME 20 TO 30 MPH AND TEMPERATURES FALL TO AROUND 30. SNOWFALL OF 2 TO 5 INCHES IS POSSIBLE BY EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING BEFORE THE SNOW DIMINISHES. ON WEDNESDAY WET SNOW MAY WORK FURTHER INTO PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST.. CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AS COLD AIR CONTINUES TO INVADE THE STATE. PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY FROM THE STORM SYSTEM ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY. PERSONS TRAVELING IN THE PANHANDLE AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA TONIGHT SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR DETERIORATING WEATHER AND DRIVING CONDITIONS. STOCKMEN AND RANCHERS SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT THEIR YOUNG LIVESTOCK FROM THE COLD AND WET WEATHER. PEOPLE ARE ADVISED TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH THE LATEST FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS CONCERNING THIS STORM. A FREEZE OR FROST WILL LIKELY AFFECT MUCH OF NEBRASKA BEHIND THIS STORM BY THURSDAY MORNING. WIESE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster | 48 min |
| Apr 25, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Lancaster | 54 min |
| Apr 25, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pawnee | 54 min |
| Apr 25, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Johnson, Otoe | 67 min |
| Apr 25, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Jefferson | 54 min |
| Apr 25, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pawnee | 39 min |
| Apr 25, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage | 38 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.