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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Omaha, NE

May 9, 1996Page County, Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at May 9, 1996, 12:01 AM CDT for Page County, Iowa. It was in force for 29 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 9, 1996, 12:01 AM CDT (05:01 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 1996, 12:30 AM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Page County, IA

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 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 1996-05-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1091 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1996-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 94 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
1091 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
739 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.2

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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
May 8, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXGage, Saline36 min
May 8, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXGage, Lancaster48 min
May 8, 8:50 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXGage, Lancaster40 min
May 8, 9:11 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXJefferson49 min
May 8, 9:15 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXJohnson, Nemaha, Otoe30 min
May 8, 9:29 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXGage, Johnson46 min
May 8, 9:52 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXJefferson38 min
May 8, 10:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXLancaster, Saunders54 min
May 8, 10:13 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXJohnson47 min
May 8, 10:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXGage48 min
May 8, 10:31 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXGage44 min
May 8, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXDodge47 min
May 9, 12:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMadison, Stanton50 min
May 9, 12:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXBurt, Cuming30 min
May 9, 12:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSaline, Seward42 min
May 9, 1:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXLancaster45 min
May 9, 1:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXColfax50 min
May 9, 3:55 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXLancaster, Otoe5 hr
May 9, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXJefferson46 min
May 8, 9:37 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills, Montgomery38 min
May 8, 9:37 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMills, Montgomery53 min
May 8, 10:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXFremont37 min
May 8, 11:05 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXFremont, Page40 min
May 8, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXPage60 min

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.