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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jun 24, 1997, 11:19 PM CDT for Gage County, Pawnee County, Nebraska. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 1997, 11:19 PM CDT (04:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1997, 5:20 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Gage County, NE, Pawnee County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:23 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 2805 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1055 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KOMA 250419 FFWOMA NEC067-133-251020- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 1119 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 1997 * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHERN GAGE COUNTY - IN SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA PAWNEE COUNTY - IN SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA * UNTIL 520 AM CDT * SOME STREAMS AFFECTED INDIAN CREEK...PLUM CREEK...AND TURKEY CREEK. * CAUSE AND EFFECT RADAR ESTIMATES 2.5 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN WITH THUNDERSTORMS FROM ODELL TO BARNESTON AND STEINAUER. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN IN THESE AREAS INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS...THUS FLASH FLOODING WITH REMAIN A THREAT. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. SKERRITT
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood 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, Jun 24, 11:02 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
NEZ034-044>045-050>053-065>067-078-IAZ043-055-056-069-250610- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 1102 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 1997 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED IN EAST CENTRAL AND PARTS OF SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA...AND PART OF FAR WESTERN IOWA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR BURT...BUTLER... CASS...DODGE...DOUGLAS...LANCASTER...SARPY...SAUNDERS...SEWARD...SALINE ...OR WASHINGTON COUNTIES IN NEBRASKA...OR FOR MONONA...HARRISON... SHELBY...OR POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTIES IN WESTERN IOWA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTH OF THE OMAHA AND LINCOLN METROPOLITAN AREAS BY MIDNIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER IS NO LONGER A THREAT. POLLACK
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 11:03 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
NEZ034-044>045-050>053-065>067-078-IAZ043-055-056-069-250610- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 1102 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 1997 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED IN EAST CENTRAL AND PARTS OF SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA...AND PART OF FAR WESTERN IOWA. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR BURT...BUTLER... CASS...DODGE...DOUGLAS...LANCASTER...SARPY...SAUNDERS...SEWARD...SALINE ...OR WASHINGTON COUNTIES IN NEBRASKA...OR FOR MONONA...HARRISON... SHELBY...OR POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTIES IN WESTERN IOWA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTH OF THE OMAHA AND LINCOLN METROPOLITAN AREAS BY MIDNIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER IS NO LONGER A THREAT. POLLACK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage | 50 min |
| Jun 25, 5:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Gage, Pawnee | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.