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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Omaha, NE

May 16, 1995Pawnee County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at May 16, 1995, 5:44 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 16, 1995, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Pawnee County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 162245
TOROMA
NEC133-162330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
544 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA/VALLEY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA
 
   ...PAWNEE COUNTY
 
RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR WYMORE OR 10 MILES
SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF BEATRICE. A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY SPOTTERS SOUTH OF
WYMORE AT 5:30 PM. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE BOOKWATER...
ARMOUR...AND BURCHARD.
 
 
PERSONS IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR.  xCARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED.
 
 
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, 3 hours 31 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, 5:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Gage	50 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.