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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jun 25, 1997, 5:25 AM CDT for Gage County, Pawnee County, Nebraska. It was in force for 3 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 25, 1997, 5:25 AM CDT (10:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1997, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 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 10:24 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, 10.4 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 251028 FFWOMA NEC067-133-251330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 525 AM CDT WED JUN 25 1997 * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR SOUTHERN GAGE COUNTY - IN SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA PAWNEE COUNTY - IN SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA * UNTIL 830 AM CDT * SOME STREAMS AFFECTED INDIAN CREEK MISSION CREEK PLUM CREEK WILDCAT CREEK TURKEY CREEK AND ITS TRIBUTARIES JOHNSON CREEK * CAUSE AND EFFECT RADAR ESTIMATES THAT TWO TO FIVE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PART OF GAGE COUNTY AND MOST OF PAWNEE COUNTY SINCE LAST EVENING. FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED SOUTH OF WYMORE WITH INDIAN CREEK OUT OF ITS BANKS. ANOTHER PERIOD OF RAIN WILL OCCUR IN THE WARNED AREA THIS MORNING...WITH MORE FLOOD PROBLEMS EXPECTED. THIS WARNING EXTENDS THE EARLIER WARNING FOR THE SAME AREA. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. SHALLOW...SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER CAN WASH A CAR FROM A fROADWAY. ALSO...THE ROADBED MAY NOT BE INTACT UNDER THE WATER. MILLER
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 25, 1:10 AM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
IAZ079-080-090-091-NEZ066>068-078-088>093-250815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 110 AM CDT WED JUN 25 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALLOWED TO EXPIRE... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 519 HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 1AM CDT FOR SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE REST OF THE NIGHT ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE STRONG WITH HEAVY RAINFALL. PERSONS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POTENTIAL URBAN AND LOWLAND FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. SHALLOW...SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER CAN WASH A CAR FROM A ROADWAY. ALSO...THE ROADBED MAY NOT BE INTACT UNDER THE WATER. GW
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 5:19 AM CDT, 6 minutes before
NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093- IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-261200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 520 AM CDT WED JUN 25 1997 ...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA... SPOTTER ACTION... STORM SPOTTERS ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT IN EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. DISCUSSION... SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED OVER SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA ARE EXPECTED TO END THIS MORNING WITH THUNDERSTORMS NOT REACHING SEVERE CRITERIA. WITH SOMEWHAT DRIER AND MORE STABLE AIR MOVING INTO THE REGION NO ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED AT THISV TIME FOR THE REST OF TODAY AND TONIGHT. GW
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 5:20 AM CDT, 5 minutes before
NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093- IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-261200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 520 AM CDT WED JUN 25 1997 ...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA... SPOTTER ACTION... STORM SPOTTERS ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT IN EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. DISCUSSION... MORE STABLE AIR WILL MAKE ANY THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA OR SOUTHWEST IOWA UNLIKELY THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. A FEW SHOWERS ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED. POWERS
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 24, 11:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Gage, Pawnee | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Nebraska, 1997Every flash flood warning in 1997
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.