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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Omaha, NE

May 31, 1996Antelope County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this flash flood warning at May 31, 1996, 9:08 PM CDT for Antelope County, Nebraska. It was in force for 3 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 31, 1996, 9:08 PM CDT (02:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 1996, 12:15 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Antelope County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 304 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 1996-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2345 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, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 1996-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 257 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2345 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
770 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
257 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
340 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
3.5
Supercell composite
16.6

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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 31, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXAntelope59 min
May 31, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXAntelope46 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.