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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Omaha, NE

May 26, 1996Gage County, Johnson County, Pawnee County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 1996, 9:16 PM CDT for Gage County, Johnson County, Pawnee County, Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 1996, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 1996, 3:15 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Gage County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Pawnee County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1996-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2098 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1996-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 194 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2098 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
194 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
291 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
3.4
Supercell composite
14.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 9:16 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXNemaha6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Nebraska, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.