Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 41, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 1996, 10:20 PM CDT for Butler County, Saunders County, Nebraska. It was in force for 55 min. 6 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, 10:20 PM CDT (03:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 1996, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Butler County, NE, Saunders County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 10:40 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Prague, NE | |
| Jun 20, 10:45 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Octavia, NE | |
| Jun 20, 11:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Prague, NE | |
| Jun 20, 11:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 69 | David City, NE | |
| Jun 20, 11:10 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Abie, NE | |
| Jun 20, 11:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | David City, 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 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 2363 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1424 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 19.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KOMA 210320 TOROMA NEC023-155-210415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 1020 PM CDT THU JUN 20 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA/VALLEY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...BUTLER COUNTY...SAUNDERS COUNTY AT 1022 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT A TORNDO WAS LOCATED NEAR OCTAVIA...50 MILES WEST OF OMAHA. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...ABIE...LINWOOD...PRAGUE... MORSE BLUFF...CEDAR BLUFFS AND COLON. 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. BYRD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cuming, Stanton | 59 min |
| Jun 20, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Burt | 35 min |
| Jun 20, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Washington | 55 min |
| Jun 20, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge | 30 min |
| Jun 20, 7:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Washington | 36 min |
| Jun 20, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cuming, Dodge | 64 min |
| Jun 20, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Washington | 59 min |
| Jun 20, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Dodge | 48 min |
| Jun 20, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Washington | 47 min |
| Jun 20, 9:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Colfax, Cuming, Dodge | 5 hr |
| Jun 20, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Dodge | 31 min |
| Jun 20, 9:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Colfax, Platte | 49 min |
| Jun 20, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Washington | 47 min |
| Jun 20, 9:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Saunders | 44 min |
| Jun 20, 9:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Dodge | 35 min |
| Jun 20, 10:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Douglas | 57 min |
| Jun 20, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Colfax | 66 min |
| Jun 20, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Washington | 49 min |
| Jun 20, 10:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Douglas | 50 min |
| Jun 20, 11:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Butler, Saunders | 66 min |
| Jun 20, 11:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Butler, Saunders | 6 hr |
| Jun 20, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Sarpy | 56 min |
| Jun 20, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster | 56 min |
| Jun 21, 12:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Seward | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 12:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Seward | 43 min |
| Jun 21, 12:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cass | 68 min |
| Jun 21, 12:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cass | 63 min |
| Jun 21, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge, Washington | 46 min |
| Jun 21, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt, Cuming | 45 min |
| Jun 21, 3:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Colfax, Platte | 54 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.