Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1997, 8:22 PM CDT for Richardson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 48 min. 2 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
- Aug 16, 1997, 8:22 PM CDT (01:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1997, 9:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Richardson County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 8:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 | Shubert, NE | Thunderstorm winds caused extensive damage to corn and soybean crops. The damage was most extensive within a few miles southeast of Shubert. |
| Aug 16, 8:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Verdon, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 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
- 4616 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1262 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Page | 32 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.