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Tornado Warning 62, NWS Omaha, NE

July 27, 1996Burt County, Thurston County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 27, 1996, 5:45 PM CDT for Burt County, Thurston County, Nebraska. It was in force for 45 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 27, 1996, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 1996, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Burt County, NE, Thurston County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 76 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 12:00Z on 1996-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 131 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 12:00Z on 1996-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 96 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
131 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
725 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 11:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXKnox49 min
Jul 26, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXAntelope, Knox62 min
Jul 27, 12:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMadison, Pierce56 min
Jul 27, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXThurston65 min
Jul 27, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXBurt62 min
Jul 27, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXBurt48 min
Jul 27, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXColfax, Dodge68 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.