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Tornado Warning 59, NWS Omaha, NE

July 16, 1996Saunders County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 16, 1996, 8:55 PM CDT for Saunders County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 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
Jul 16, 1996, 8:55 PM CDT (01:55 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1996, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Saunders County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 25 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1996-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1921 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 1996-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1921 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
979 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
214 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KOMA 170157
TOROMA
NEC155-170245-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
855 PM CDT TUE JUL 16 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA/VALLEY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA
 
   ...SAUNDERS COUNTY
 
AT 855 PM RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF
WESTON...30 MILES NORTH OF LINCOLN. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST/SOUTHEAST
AT 15 MPH. THE TOWNS OF WESTON...SWEDEBURG AND WAHOO ARE IN THE PATH OF
THIS STORM.
 
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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 7:12 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXButler48 min
Jul 16, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXColfax, Platte45 min
Jul 16, 7:36 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXPlatte2 hr
Jul 16, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXButler45 min
Jul 16, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSaunders47 min
Jul 16, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXBurt, Thurston43 min
Jul 16, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCedar50 min
Jul 16, 9:45 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXCedar, Knox3 hr
Jul 16, 10:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXCedar, Knox52 min
Jul 16, 10:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCedar, Knox52 min
Jul 16, 11:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXCedar56 min
Jul 16, 11:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCedar56 min
Jul 17, 12:33 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXCedar3 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.