Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 64, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 4, 1996, 7:09 PM CDT for Dodge County, Nebraska. It was in force for 51 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
- Aug 4, 1996, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1996, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dodge County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 7:43 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Winslow, 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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 4142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 823 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.8
- Supercell composite
- 16.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KOMA 050010 TOROMA NEC053-050100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 709 PM CDT SUN AUG 4 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA/VALLEY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA ...DODGE COUNTY A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 4 MILES NORTH OF NORTH BEND NEBRASKA MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...INCLUDE....NORTH BEND...AMES AND FREMONT. THIS REPLACES THE PREVIOUSLY ISSUED TORNADO WARNING FOR DODGE AND COLFALX COUNTIES. 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. 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, Aug 4, 1:36 PM CDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
NEZ011-012-016>018-030>034-040>053-061>066-072>078-081>087- IAZ043-055-056-069-050100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 135 PM CDT SUN AUG 4 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH NORTHEAST THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 8 PM CDT... A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING THROUGH SOUTHWEST...CENTRAL... AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA IS EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY DURING THE MID AND LATE AFTERNOON. THIS LINE COULD PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER AND TORNADOES INTO THIS EVENING. THE LINE IS NOT EXPECTED TO MOVE MUCH UNTIL LATE AFTERNOON...WHEN IT IS LIKELY TO BEGIN MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST. AS A RESULT OF THE SLOW MOVEMENT...LOCALLY EXCESSIVE RAINS ARE A THREAT ALONG WITH THE SEVERE WEATHER...SINCE NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS COULD TRACK OVER THE SAME AREA. THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH GRAND ISLAND BEFORE 3 PM OR HASTINGS BEFORE 4 PM. THE OMAHA AND LINCOLN METROPOLITAN AREAS ARE UNLIKELY TO BE THREATENED WITH SEVERE WEATHER BEFORE 6 PM. NORFOLK...KEARNEY...AND MC COOK COULD RECEIVE SEVERE WEATHER ANY TIME THIS AFTERNOON. IF SEVERE WEATHER DEVELOPS...WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFOR MATION AND BE READY TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OR TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED. POLLACK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Colfax | 29 min |
| Aug 4, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Saunders | 62 min |
| Aug 4, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt, Washington | 53 min |
| Aug 4, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Platte | 57 min |
| Aug 4, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge | 61 min |
| Aug 4, 8:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Colfax, Dodge | 6 hr |
| Aug 4, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Colfax | 35 min |
| Aug 4, 9:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Cuming, Stanton | 4 hr |
| Aug 4, 9:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Thurston | 4 hr |
| Aug 4, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Platte, Stanton | 66 min |
| Aug 4, 11:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cuming | 48 min |
| Aug 5, 12:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Cuming, Thurston | 5 hr |
| Aug 5, 12:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Stanton | 5 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Cuming, Stanton | 3 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.