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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Omaha, NE

June 14, 1998Seward County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1998, 3:27 AM CDT for Seward 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 14, 1998, 3:27 AM CDT (08:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1998, 6:30 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Seward County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 382 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
382 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-388 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1731 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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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 flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jun 14, 2:50 AM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:50 AM CDT, 37 minutes before
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In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 7:17 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXGage48 min
Jun 13, 7:56 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPawnee49 min
Jun 13, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXNemaha, Richardson47 min
Jun 13, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXPlatte50 min
Jun 13, 9:10 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXRichardson35 min
Jun 13, 9:38 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXPawnee32 min
Jun 13, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSaline, Seward47 min
Jun 13, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXRichardson47 min
Jun 13, 10:26 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXJefferson, Saline49 min
Jun 13, 11:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXOtoe50 min
Jun 13, 11:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXGage, Lancaster47 min
Jun 13, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXJohnson, Otoe62 min
Jun 13, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCass62 min
Jun 14, 12:56 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXNemaha3 hr
Jun 14, 12:56 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXCass, Otoe3 hr
Jun 14, 1:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMontgomery, Page45 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Nebraska, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.