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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Omaha, NE

July 7, 1997Stanton County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 7, 1997, 6:11 PM CDT for Stanton County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 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, 6:11 PM CDT (23:11 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 1997, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Stanton County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 95 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1997-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1997-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KOMA 072312 RRB
TOROMA
NEC167-080015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
611 PM CDT MON JUL 7 1997

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  STANTON COUNTY - IN NORTHEASTERN NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  WOODLAND PARK JUST NORTHEAST OF NORFOLK
  STANTON
  HIGHWAY 275 NORTH OF STANTON

* AT 609 PM CDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
  RADAR IN THE VICINITY OF NORFOLK MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
 
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY TO
SAVE YOUR LIVES.  MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING...A BASEMENT IF POSSIBLE
COVER YOUR HEAD FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

MILLER

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, 4:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXKnox31 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

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 1997Every tornado warning in 1997Tornadoes 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.