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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1996, 9:37 PM CDT for Mills County, Montgomery County, Iowa. It was in force for 53 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
- May 8, 1996, 9:37 PM CDT (02:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Mills County, IA, Montgomery County, IA
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 1091 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, May 8, 4:09 PM CDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before
NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093- IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-091200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 410 PM CDT WED MAY 8 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 AGAIN LATER THIS EVENING OR TONIGHT. DISCUSSION... THERE IS A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT OVER EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. THE MOST FAVORED AREA FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT WILL BE OVER SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA THIS EVENING...WITH A FEW SEVERE STORMS DEVELOPING NORTHWARD INTO NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND WEST-CENTRAL IOWA LATER TONIGHT. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLASH FLOODING. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP OVER NORTH-CENTRAL KANSAS THIS EVENING SPREADING NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. AS AN UPPER DISTURBANCE APPROACHES THE AREA FROM THE WEST...THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL GRADUALLY INCREASE FURTHER NORTH INTO NORTHERN SECTIONS OF NEBRASKA AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF IOWA. HINSON/POLLACK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Mills, Montgomery | 38 min |
| May 8, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont | 37 min |
| May 8, 11:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Fremont, Page | 40 min |
| May 8, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Page | 60 min |
| May 9, 12:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Page | 29 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.