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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Omaha, NE

June 20, 1996Cuming County, Stanton County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 1996, 6:27 PM CDT for Cuming County, Stanton County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 min. 3 reports 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: Jun 20, 1996, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 1996, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cuming County, NE, Stanton County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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

Time	Report	Where
Jun 20, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Stanton, NE
Jun 20, 6:35 PM CDT	Hail 2	West Pt, NE
Jun 20, 7:05 PM CDT	Hail 1	Wooldrik, 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 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 84 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2885 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 10.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KOMA 202331 COR
TOROMA
NEC039-167-210000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
627 PM CDT THU JUN 20 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA/VALLEY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA

   ...CUMING COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN STANTON COUNTY

AT 626 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO DEVELOPING ABOUT 4
MILES NORTH OF CLARKSON....OR 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NORFOLK. MOVEMENT
WAS EAST AT 25 MPH. THE STORM SHOULD MOVE MAINLY THROUGH THE
SOUTHWEST PART OF CUMING COUNTY...JUST NORTH OF HOWELLS AND DODGE.
IT COULD ALSO AFFECT THE AREA ALONG THE DODGE COUNTY LINE.
THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CUMING AND STANTON
COUNTIES.

PERSONS IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR.  CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED.

MILLER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cedar	33 min
Jun 20, 7:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Madison, Stanton	30 min
Jun 20, 7:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Colfax, Dodge	62 min
Jun 20, 8:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Douglas	61 min
Jun 20, 8:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Washington	61 min
Jun 20, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Wayne	45 min
Jun 20, 5:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cuming, Stanton	54 min
Jun 20, 6:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Burt	41 min
Jun 20, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Colfax, Dodge	51 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.