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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Omaha, NE

May 8, 1995Cass County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1995, 10:11 PM CDT for Cass County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 min. 5 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 8, 1995, 10:11 PM CDT (03:11 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 1995, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Cass County, NE

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 8, 10:33 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Murray, NE	Cass County Emergency Services had 40 to 50 spotters throughout the county with several reports of brief tornado touchdowns, but no damage.
May 8, 10:34 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Weeping Water, NE	Cass County Emergency Services had 40 to 50 spotters throughout the county with several reports of brief tornado touchdowns, but no damage.
May 8, 10:45 PM CDT	Tornado F0	1 N Alvo, NE	Cass County Emergency Services had 40 to 50 spotters throughout the county with several reports of brief tornado touchdowns, but no damage.
May 8, 10:46 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Weeping Water, NE	Cass County Emergency Services had 40 to 50 spotters throughout the county with several reports of brief tornado touchdowns, but no damage.
May 8, 10:46 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Alvo, NE	Cass County Emergency Services had 40 to 50 spotters throughout the county with several reports of brief tornado touchdowns, but no damage.

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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 49 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KOMA 090316
TOROMA
NEC025-090400-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1011 PM CDT MON MAY 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA/VALLEY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...CASS COUNTY
 
AT 1015 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR
ALVO OR 16 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF LINCOLN. ANOTHER POSSIBLE
TORNADO WAS NEAR MURRAY OR 24 MILES SOUTH OF DOWNTOWN OMAHA.
THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION.
 
TAKE COVER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IMMEDIATELY.
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.  DAMAGE REPORTS OR OBSERVED SEVERE WEATHER
SHOULD BE GIVEN TO A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE.
 
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, 8:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Nemaha	28 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, 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.