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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Omaha, NE

May 28, 1998Dodge County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1998, 10:56 PM CDT for Dodge County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 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: May 28, 1998, 10:56 PM CDT (03:56 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1998, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Dodge County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 28, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 37 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2835 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1954 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 7.5

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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

Local storm report, May 28, 7:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
745 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0640 PM    6 NE COLERIDGE            NE   TORNADO
05/28/98   CEDAR                          INITIAL TOUCHDOWN

0645 PM    10 ESE HARTINGTON         NE   TORNADO
05/28/98   CEDAR                          *** 1 INJ ***
                                          3 FARMS DAMAGED NEAR
                                          HIGHWAY 57.  TOTAL PATH
                                          LENGTH ABOUT 8 MILES.
                                          INJURY OCCURRED 1 MILE
                                          SOUTHEAST OF HIGHWAY
                                          84/57 JUNCTION

BYRD

Local storm report, May 28, 7:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
745 PM CDT THU MAY 28 1998

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0640 PM    6 NE COLERIDGE            NE   TORNADO
05/28/98   CEDAR                          INITIAL TOUCHDOWN

0645 PM    10 ESE HARTINGTON         NE   TORNADO
05/28/98   CEDAR                          *** 1 INJ ***
                                          3 FARMS DAMAGED NEAR
                                          HIGHWAY 57.  TOTAL PATH
                                          LENGTH ABOUT 8 MILES.
                                          INJURY OCCURRED 1 MILE
                                          SOUTHEAST OF HIGHWAY
                                          84/57 JUNCTION

BYRD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 10:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Burt	62 min
May 28, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Washington	61 min
May 28, 11:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Colfax, Saunders	48 min
May 28, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Dodge, Washington	61 min
May 28, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Douglas	63 min
May 29, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saunders	61 min
May 29, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Sarpy	62 min
May 29, 1:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Douglas	58 min
May 29, 1:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saunders	63 min
May 29, 1:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass, Lancaster	61 min
May 29, 1:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Sarpy	45 min
May 29, 2:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Jefferson, Saline, Seward	59 min
May 29, 2:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass, Otoe	64 min
May 29, 2:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Lancaster	61 min
May 29, 3:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Johnson, Pawnee	63 min
May 29, 3:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Nemaha, Richardson	62 min
May 29, 3:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Cass, Lancaster, Otoe	3 hr
May 28, 8:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Monona	60 min
May 28, 9:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Monona	45 min
May 28, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Monona	35 min
May 28, 10:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Shelby	61 min
May 28, 11:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison	60 min
May 29, 1:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Mills, Montgomery	59 min
May 29, 2:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page	47 min
May 29, 3:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Page	62 min

Nearby

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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.