Tornado Warning 45, NWS Omaha, NE

Issued

Jun 21, 1996, 12:47 AM CDT (05:47 UTC)

Expired

Jun 21, 1996, 1:30 AM CDT

In force

43 min

Issued by

NWS Omaha, NE

Area

Whole counties

County Seward County, NE

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:49 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.

000 
TTAA00 KOMA 210549
TOROMA
NEC159-210630-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1247 AM CDT FRI JUN 21 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA/VALLEY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...SEWARD COUNTY
 
AT 1245 AM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES WEST
OF BEE...30 MILES NORTHWEST OF LINCOLN. THE STORM WAS MOVING
EAST/SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH WITH BEE..GARLAND AND SEWARD IN ITS PATH.
 
THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SEWARD COUNTY
THAT WAS TO EXPIRE AT 130 AM.  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES
FOR EXTREME SOUTH*EAST BUTLER COUNTY UNTIL 130 AM.
 
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.
 
CHERMOK

In the hours before

NEZ066-065-210545-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1137 PM CDT THU JUN 20 1996

AT 1135 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG OUTFLOW BOUNDARY PUSHING
SOUTHWARD THROUGH NORTHERN SEWARD AND NORTHERN LANCASTER COUNTIES OF
SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. THIS OUTFLOW WAS BEING CAUSED BY SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS TO THE NORTH OF LANCASTER AND SEWARD COUNTIES.

STRONG WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS
BOUNDARY WHICH SHOULD REACH LINCOLN BY MIDNIGHT.  RESIDENTS OF SEWARD
AND LANCASTER COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF
SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAVY RAINS LATER TONIGHT.

LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
BYRD

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NEZ004-005-022-023-035-056>058-069-210620-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1219 AM CDT (1119 PM MDT) FRI JUN 21 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 650 CANCELLED FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN
    NEBRASKA...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 650 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF WESTERN NEBRASKA...

SHERIDAN...CHERRY...GARDEN...GRANT...DEUEL AND ARTHUR.

THE WATCH CONTINUE IN EFFECT UNTIL 1AM CDT/MFIDNIGHT FOR AREAS OF
SOUTHWEST NEBRAASKA INCLUDING KEITH...PERKINS AND CHASE COUNTIES.

GW

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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.