Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 1997, 6:11 PM CDT for Madison County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 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
- Jul 7, 1997, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1997, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 6:16 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Norfolk, NE | |
| Jul 7, 6:30 PM CDT | Hail 2.75 | Battle Creek, NE | Large hail damaged 12,000 acres of corn and 6,000 acres of soybeans. |
| Jul 7, 6:49 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Norfolk, NE | Ground covered with hail. |
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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 929 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
299 WFUS1 KOMA 072311 RRA TOROMA NEC119-080000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 611 PM CDT MON JUL 7 1997 * TORNADO WARNING FOR MADISON COUNTY - IN NORTHEASTERN NEBRASKA * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED NORFOLK NOW * AT 609 PM CDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS WEST SIDE OF NORFOLK MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PERSONS IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED. GW &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Knox | 51 min |
| Jul 7, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cedar | 63 min |
| Jul 7, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Knox | 31 min |
| Jul 7, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Pierce | 49 min |
| Jul 7, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cedar | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Madison | 50 min |
| Jul 7, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Wayne | 62 min |
| Jul 7, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pierce | 47 min |
| Jul 7, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Stanton | 64 min |
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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.