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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Omaha, NE

May 16, 1995Jefferson County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at May 16, 1995, 4:37 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 38 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 16, 1995, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Jefferson County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 16, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Northern Daykin, NE	A tornado did damage to a center pivot west of Alexandria, uprooted trees near Alexandria and did wind damage to a barn and took large tree limbs about three miles east and southeast of Daykin.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 143 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KOMA 162139
TOROMA
NEC095-162215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
437 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA/VALLEY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA
 
   ...JEFFERSON COUNTY
 
RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR DAYKIN OR 30 MILES WEST OF
BEATRICE. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 20 MILES PER HOUR. TOWNS IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM ARE HELVEY AND PLYMOUTH.
 
 
PERSONS IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR.  CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED.
 
 
SMITH

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, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saline	58 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

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 1995 Every tornado warning in 1995 Tornadoes 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.