Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1995, 8:02 PM CDT for Nemaha County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 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 8, 1995, 8:02 PM CDT (01:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1995, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nemaha County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Nemaha, NE | A tornado touched down four miles west and one-half mile south of Auburn and did extensive damage to a house, farm, its outbuildings, and power lines along the path of the tornado. A second farmsite was damage three and one-half miles west of Auburn. |
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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KOMA 090103 TOROMA NEC127-090130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 802 PM CDT MON MAY 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA/VALLEY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA ...NEMAHA COUNTY AT 801 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN NEMAHA COUNTY NEAR AUBURN...OR 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF FALLS CITY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH AT 30 MPH. A FUNNEL CLOUD HAS BEEN REPORTED. AUBURN IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. 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. MILLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Lancaster | 37 min |
| May 8, 8:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Johnson | 28 min |
| May 8, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Gage, Lancaster | 29 min |
| May 8, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Nemaha | 35 min |
| May 8, 8:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Otoe | 53 min |
| May 8, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cass, Otoe | 32 min |
| May 8, 10:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cass | 49 min |
| May 8, 11:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cass | 29 min |
| May 8, 11:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Lancaster | 34 min |
| May 8, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Sarpy | 39 min |
| May 8, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass | 38 min |
| May 9, 12:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Nemaha, Otoe | 3 hr |
| May 9, 12:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Cass | 3 hr |
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.