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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Omaha, NE

May 8, 1995Fremont County, Mills County, Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1995, 11:44 PM CDT for Fremont County, Mills County, Iowa. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 8, 1995, 11:44 PM CDT (04:44 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 1995, 12:15 AM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Fremont County, IA, Mills County, IA

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 79 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 41 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -61 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
41 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1136 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-149 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
May 8, 8:52 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont53 min
May 8, 9:23 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont52 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Iowa, 1995Every tornado warning in 1995Tornadoes 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.