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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Omaha, NE

June 20, 1996Burt County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 1996, 6:34 PM CDT for Burt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 41 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 20, 1996, 6:34 PM CDT (23:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 1996, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Burt County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:34 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 59 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 202335
TOROMA
NEC021-210015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
634 PM CDT THU JUN 20 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA/VALLEY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...BURT COUNTY
 
AT 634 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF OAKLAND
...OR ABOUT 45 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF NORFOLK. THE STORM IS MOVING
TOWARD LYONS AND OAKLAND. TAKE COVER.
 
TAKE COVER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IMMEDIATELY.
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.  DAMAGE REPORTS OR OBSERVED SEVERE WEATHER
SHOULD BE GIVEN TO A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE.
 
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, 6:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Cuming, Stanton	33 min
Jun 20, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Colfax, Dodge	51 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 1996 Every tornado warning in 1996 Tornadoes 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.