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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 1998, 12:56 AM CDT for Cass County, Otoe 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, 12:56 AM CDT (05:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1998, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cass County, NE, Otoe County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:59 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KOMA 140557 FFWOMA NEC025-127-131-140900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 1256 AM CDT SUN JUN 14 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CASS COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA OTOE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA NEMAHA COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA * UNTIL 400 AM CDT * AT 1250 AM CDT... VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS RESULTED IN SOME FLOODING REPORTED IN PARTS OF CASS...OTOE AND NEMAHA COUNTIES. RADAR HAS ESTIMATED RAINFALL OF BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES ACROSS THE AREA SO FAR TONIGHT WITH ADDITIONAL RAIN LIKELY OVERNIGHT. SOME STREAMS AFFECTED INCLUDE...SMALLER STREAMS AND CREEKS ACROSS THE AREA MOVE TO HIGH GROUND IF FLOOD WATERS THREATEN. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING. FOBERT
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 13, 1:30 PM CDT, 11 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 1:30 PM CDT, 11 hours 26 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 130 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 1998 ...MAIN CONCERN...OF COURSE...IS SVR WX THREAT TONIGHT...THEN DEALING WITH WINDY/SHOWERY WX SUN INTO MON W/ ANOTHER STRONG IMPULSE FORECAST TO DIVE THIS WAY IN NW FLOW... 12Z UAA POINTS TO A RATHER STRONG SYS MOVING OUT OF THE ROCKIES. H25 JET WINDS COMING AROUND BASE OF UPPER LO TOP OUT AT 125 KTS WITH 75 KT H5 JET AS WELL. DECENT HGHT FALLS HAVE DEVELOPED W/ SYS W/ 80 GPM FALLS IN WRN CO. WV IMAGERY AS OF 17Z STILL SHOW A WELL DEFINED SPIN MOVING THRU WRN CO. AZTEC NM PROFILER SHOWING STRONG WINDS PROGRESSING EAST W/ 65KTS AT H5 AND 115 IN THE H25/H2 LAYER. MEANWHILE...H85 ANAL HAD LO PRES IN WY WITH FRONT EXTENDING SE INTO CNTRL KS AND AR. ADEQT MOISTURE FOR SVR STORMS EXISTS FROM CNTRL KS ON SOUTH. INCREASING LLJ CONTS TO PUSH THIS INTO NEB AS WELL. AT THE SFC...LOW PRES...AS ADVERTISED...WAS DEEPENING RAPIDLY INVOF DNR. ADAP SHOWS PRES FALL BULLSEYE IN SW NEB SUPPORTING A TRACK ACROSS SRN NEB TONIGHT. WARM FRONT NOW EXTENDS FROM NE CO/NW KS ESE THRU CNTRL KS AROUND GBD AND DOWN TO MO/AR BORDER. DWPTS VERY JUICY SOUTH OF FRONT W/ MID 70S DWPTS JUST STARTING TO CROSS SRN KS BORDER. MID 60S READINGS INTO CNTRL KS AS OF 17Z. GOOD DRY PUNCH ALSO EVIDENT THRU SW KS INTO TX PNHDL W/ WSW WINDS AND DWPTS IN THE 40S. ENOUGH SAID...AS UPPER SYS RACES EAST OUT OF CO AND WARM FRONT LIFTS NORTH TO ABOUT NEB/KS BORDER...PLENTY OF SVR WX WILL BE AROUND TONIGHT\ ...ESP THRU MIDNIGHT. AFT COORD W/ OMA WILL INCLUDE FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN ERN PARTS OF CWA WHERE GROUND REMAINS PRETTY SATURATED FROM RECENT RAINS...AND BEST CHC OF WIDESPREAD MOD/HEAVY RAIN EXISTS AS SVR WX ORGANIZES INTO AN MCS. EVEN THO PATTERN IS RELATIVELY ACTIVE THRU MON...IT IS PRETTY STRAIGHT FORWARD. AS THIS CURRENT SYS WINDS UP IN IA...NW FLOW WILL INCREASE IN RESPONSE TO TIGHTENING GRADIENT. ANOTHER STRONG IMPULSE PROGGED TO DIVE INTO AREA IN NW FLOW LATE TOMR / TOMR NIGHT. WHILE SVR WX POTENTIAL IS IN QUESTION...SHRA/TSRA CHCS ARE NOT. W/ FAN/FWC BOTH HOLDING ONTO POPS INTO MON...SCT POPS WILL LIKELY TO NEEDED AT LEAST TO COVER AM HRS AS SYS PROGRESSES EAST OUT OF AREA BY AFTN. WILL FOCUS POPS OVER NE PARTS OF CWA SUN THRU MON AND TAPER OFF CHCS FURTHER SOUTH AND WEST AWAY FROM STRONGEST ENERGY AND MOST ABUNDANT WRAPAROUND MOISTURE. IT WILL FEEL RELATIVELY COOL SUN/MON AS NW WINDS OF 20/30 MPH BOTH DAYS COUPLE W/ READINGS IN THE LOWER TO MID 70S. KS AREA WILL LIKELY TO A FAIR AMT WARMER AS COOLER AIR SHOULD REMAIN TO AREAS WEST OF IA LOW AS IT WRAPS UP AND EDGES EAST. GRI NN 058/074/052/075/55 744 GURNEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Gage | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Pawnee | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Nemaha, Richardson | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Platte | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Richardson | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 9:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Pawnee | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Saline, Seward | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 10:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Richardson | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Jefferson, Saline | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 11:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Otoe | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 11:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Lancaster | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Johnson, Otoe | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass | 62 min |
| Jun 14, 12:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Nemaha | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Seward | 3 hr |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.