Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 48, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 1996, 3:32 PM CDT for Cass County, Nebraska. It was in force for 58 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
- Jun 23, 1996, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1996, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cass County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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 23, 4:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Plattsmouth, 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -399 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1219 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KOMA 232034 TOROMA NEC025-232130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 332 PM CDT SUN JUN 23 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA/VALLEY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...EAST CENTRAL CASS COUNTY A TORNADO WAS REPORTED THAT OVERTURNED A VEHICLE ALONG HIGHWAY 50 ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF SPRINGFILED...40 MILES EAST OF LINCOLN...AT 330 PM CDT. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE WEEPING WATER...MANLEY... MURRAY AND PLATTSMOUTH. 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 &
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, Jun 23, 11:24 AM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093- IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-241200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 1120 AM CST SUN JUN 23 1996 ...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA... SPOTTER ACTION... STORM SPOTTER GROUPS IN EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA MAY NEED TO BE ACTIVATED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. DISCUSSION... A FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDING FROM SOUTHERN NEBRASKA INTO NORTHWEST KANSAS WILL SERVE AS A FOCUSSING MECHANISM FOR MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. WARM...MOIST...AND VERY UNSTABLE AIR WILL CONTINUE TO FLOW NORTH OVER THE FRONT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. THIS WILL SETUP THE CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT...MAINLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA INTO SOUTHWEST IOWA. IN ADDITION TO THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...HEAVY RAINFA<LL IN EXCESS OF 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS. HINSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Seward | 27 min |
| Jun 22, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 12:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Saunders | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Sarpy | 40 min |
| Jun 23, 1:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Washington | 6 hr |
| Jun 23, 6:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Saunders | 4 hr |
| Jun 23, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Sarpy | 67 min |
| Jun 23, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cass | 33 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 1996Every tornado warning in 1996Tornadoes 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.