Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Omaha, NE

Issued

Jun 20, 1996, 11:49 PM CDT (04:49 UTC)

Expired

Jun 21, 1996, 12:45 AM CDT

In force

56 min

Issued by

NWS Omaha, NE

Area

Whole counties

County Lancaster County, NE

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

000 
TTAA00 KOMA 210450
SVROMA
NEC025-109-153-210545-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1149 PM CDT THU JUN 20 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA/VALLEY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...CASS COUNTY...NORTHERN LANCASTER COUNTY
   ...WESTERN SARPY COUNTY
 
AT 1150 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
NORRTHERN LANCASTER COUNTY 5 TO 10 MILES NORTH OF LINCOLN. THE STORM WAS
MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
 
AT CERESCO 45 TO 50 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED AT 1142 PM CDT.
 
 
PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD GET INTO A REINFORCED SHELTER AND
PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
 
 
BYRD

In the hours before

NEZ066-065-210545-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1137 PM CDT THU JUN 20 1996

AT 1135 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARY PUSHING
SOUTHWARD THROUGH NORTHERN SEWARD AND NORTHERN LANCASTER COUNTIES OF
SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. THIS OUTFLOW WAS BEING CAUSED BY SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS TO THE NORTH OF LANCASTER AND SEWARD COUNTIES.

STRONG WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS
BOUNDARY WHICH SHOULD REACH LINCOLN BY MIDNIGHT.  RESIDENTS OF SEWARD
AND LANCASTER COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF
SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAVY RAINS LATER TONIGHT.

LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
BYRD

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.