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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Omaha, NE

May 16, 1995Gage County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at May 16, 1995, 5:10 PM CDT for Gage County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 min. 2 reports 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, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Gage County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 16, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Beatrice, NE	An off duty police officer had truck thrown off the road into a ditch. The liner was ripped out of his vehicle.
May 16, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado F0	S Wymore, NE	Two inches of heavy rain fell in 15 minutes.

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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 162212
TOROMA
NEC067-162300-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
510 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA/VALLEY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA
 
   ...GAGE COUNTY
 
RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF HARBINE OR 12 MILES
WEST OF BEATRICE. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED BY THE JEFFERSON
COUNTY SHERIFF AT 5 PM AT PLYMOUTH. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST AT
30 MILES PER HOUR. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE ELLIS AND BEATRIC
 
 
TAKE COVER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IMMEDIATELY.
STAY AWAY FROM WI@NDOWS.  DAMAGE REPORTS OR OBSERVED SEVERE WEATHER
SHOULD BE GIVEN TO A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE.
 
 
SMITH
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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

Local storm report, May 16, 2:13 PM CDT, 2 hours 57 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, 4:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saline	58 min
May 16, 4:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Jefferson	38 min
May 16, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Pawnee	46 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.