Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at May 27, 1995, 4:01 PM CDT for Wayne County, Nebraska. It was in force for 29 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 27, 1995, 4:01 PM CDT (21:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | 2 S Wayne, NE | Brief touchdowns from a tornado did minor damage to maintenance sheds, hog feeders, trees, and a utility shed. |
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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, May 27, 11:05 AM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
NEZ001>012-016>093-IAZ055-069-079-280000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 1105 AM CDT SAT MAY 27 1995 ...NEBRASKA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER MUCH OF THE SOUTHEASTERN THIRD OF NEBRASKA. THE GREATEST THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM JUST NORTH OF OMAHA TO GRAND ISLAND...AND EAST OF A LINE FROM GRAND ISLAND TO SUPERIOR. THIS IS A DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN ARE ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS WHICH WITH THE SATURATED GROUND FROM RECENT RAINS RESULT IN RUNOFF PROBLEMS. STRONG LOW PRESSURE JUST WEST OF HILL CITY KANSAS LATE SATURDAY MORNING WILL MOVE EAST NORTHEAST TO JUST WEST OF OMAHA BY EARLY EVENING. A WARM FRONT EXTENDING EAST FROM THE LOW ALONG THE NEBRASKA/KANSAS STATE LINE THIS MORNING WILL MOVE NORTH INTO EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. WARM...MOIST...AND UNSTABLE AIR WAS LOCATED SOUTH OF THIS WARM FRONT ALONG WITH PARTLY SUNNY SKIES OVER MUCH OF KANSAS LATE SATURDAY MORNING. AS THE WARM FRONT MOVES NORTH OF THE AREA...THE RAIN WILL END AND SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS WILL ALLOW THE ATMOSPHERE THE DESTABLIZE RESULTING IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLY TORNADOS. CIVIL DEFENSE...LAW ENFORCEMENT...AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN THIRD OF NEBRASKA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY FOR ACTIVATION AS NECESSARY LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR THIS EVENING. PEOPLE SHOULD MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND NEWS MEDIA OUTLETS FOR POSSIBLE WATCHES...WARNINGS AND LATER STATEMENTS. SKERRITT/WIESE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Platte | 56 min |
| May 27, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Seward | 45 min |
| May 27, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Wayne | 53 min |
| May 27, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Stanton | 47 min |
| May 27, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Saunders | 41 min |
| May 27, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cedar | 30 min |
| May 27, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Wayne | 51 min |
| May 27, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge | 49 min |
| May 27, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Thurston | 52 min |
| May 27, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Thurston | 15 min |
| May 27, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt, Washington | 51 min |
| May 27, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Douglas | 51 min |
| May 27, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Washington | 47 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.