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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Omaha, NE

May 16, 1996Butler County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1996, 5:22 AM CDT for Butler County, Nebraska. It was in force for 53 min. 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 16, 1996, 5:22 AM CDT (10:22 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1996, 6:15 AM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Butler County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 290 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1996-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3202 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 1996-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3202 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1788 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
9.7

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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 16, 5:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSaline, Seward53 min
May 16, 5:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXLancaster, Saunders43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1996Every severe thunderstorm 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.