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Tornado Warning 65, NWS Omaha, NE

October 16, 1996Antelope County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Oct 16, 1996, 6:31 PM CDT for Antelope County, Nebraska. It was in force for 44 min. 3 reports 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
Oct 16, 1996, 6:31 PM CDT (23:31 UTC)
Expired
Oct 16, 1996, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Antelope County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 16, 6:45 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 55Clearwater, NE
Oct 16, 6:50 PM CDTHail 1.75Clearwater, NE
Oct 16, 6:58 PM CDTHail 0.75Neligh, 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 170 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 1996-10-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 579 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 1996-10-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 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
579 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-171 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
822 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KOMA 162331
TOROMA
NEC003-170015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
631 PM CDT WED OCT 16 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA/VALLEY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA
 
   ...ANTELOPE COUNTY
 
AT 630 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 25 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF O NEILL OR 20 MILES WEST OF NELIGH. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE
CLEARWATER...ORCHARD...ROYAL...AND BRUNSWICK. THIS STORM COULD AFFECT
AREAS WEST OF NELIGH.
 
 
PERSONS IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT IF
AVAxILABLE.  OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR.  CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED.
 
 
SMITH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 16, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXKnox41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.