Alert archive / Iowa / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at May 22, 1996, 10:08 PM CDT for Fremont County, Iowa. It was in force for 52 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 22, 1996, 10:08 PM CDT (03:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1996, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fremont County, IA
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 10:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Riverton, IA |
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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 91 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KOMA 230308 TOROMA IAC071-230400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 1008 PM CDT WED MAY 22 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA/VALLEY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST IOWA ...FREMONT COUNTY AT 1006 PM CDT A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH OF NEBRASKA CITY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS IS ABOUT 45 MILES NORTH OF FALLS CITY. COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...TABOR...SIDNEY...PERCIVAL...BARTLETT...THURMAN AND RANDOLPH. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL OCCURRED AT UNION NEBRASKA AT 1004 PM CDT. PEOPLE IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD MOVE TO A REINFORCED BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR TO BE PREPARED FOR THE DESTRUCTIVE WINDS THAT ACCOMPANY TORNADOES. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF TORNADOES... LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. MILLER &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 34 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Page | 62 min |
| May 23, 12:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Page | 42 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.