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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Omaha, NE

June 12, 1996Saunders County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1996, 1:59 PM CDT for Saunders County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 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
Jun 12, 1996, 1:59 PM CDT (18:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1996, 2:30 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Saunders County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 262 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 536 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 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
536 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1513 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 1:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXDouglas, Sarpy44 min
Jun 12, 2:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCass, Sarpy47 min
Jun 12, 2:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXDouglas47 min
Jun 12, 3:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXLancaster51 min
Jun 12, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXJefferson46 min
Jun 12, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXOtoe48 min
Jun 12, 4:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXJohnson59 min
Jun 12, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSaline50 min
Jun 12, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXGage, Saline63 min
Jun 12, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXBurt47 min
Jun 12, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXPawnee49 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.