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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Omaha, NE

May 23, 1996Gage County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1996, 12:28 AM CDT for Gage County, Nebraska. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report 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 23, 1996, 12:28 AM CDT (05:28 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 1996, 1:30 AM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Gage County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 23, 1:03 AM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52Beatrice, NE

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 121 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1996-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1996-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 147 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1697 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
147 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
501 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 22, 9:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
NEZ057>059-069-230300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
930 PM CDT WED MAY 22 1996

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 414 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
KEITH...PERKIN@S...CHASE AND LINCOLN.

FOBERT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCass, Otoe59 min
May 22, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXGage57 min
May 22, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXPawnee60 min
May 22, 8:07 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXSeward53 min
May 22, 8:09 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXGage, Pawnee36 min
May 22, 8:32 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXLancaster43 min
May 22, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXPawnee48 min
May 22, 9:08 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXCass, Lancaster, Otoe37 min
May 22, 9:38 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXCass, Otoe52 min
May 22, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXButler, Colfax40 min
May 22, 10:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXDodge, Saunders54 min
May 22, 10:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXRichardson61 min
May 22, 10:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXGage, Jefferson57 min
May 22, 11:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXJohnson44 min
May 22, 11:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXDouglas, Sarpy55 min
May 22, 11:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXWashington55 min
May 22, 11:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXJefferson65 min
May 23, 12:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXRichardson21 min
May 23, 12:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXGage, Pawnee6 hr
May 23, 12:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXJefferson6 hr
May 23, 1:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXJohnson, Pawnee66 min
May 22, 10:08 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont52 min
May 22, 10:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXPage62 min
May 23, 12:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXPage42 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.