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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Omaha, NE

July 7, 1997Knox County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1997, 4:34 PM CDT for Knox County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 1997, 4:34 PM CDT (21:34 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 1997, 5:05 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Knox County, NE

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, Jul 7, 10:50 AM CDT, 5 hours 44 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXKnox51 min
Jul 7, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCedar63 min
Jul 7, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXAntelope62 min
Jul 7, 5:06 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPierce49 min
Jul 7, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCedar50 min
Jul 7, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMadison50 min
Jul 7, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXWayne62 min
Jul 7, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXPierce47 min
Jul 7, 6:11 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMadison49 min
Jul 7, 6:11 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXStanton64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1997Every severe thunderstorm 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.