Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 153, NWS Omaha, NE

June 8, 1998Cass County, Sarpy County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1998, 6:17 PM CDT for Cass County, Sarpy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report 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
Jun 8, 1998, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 1998, 7:05 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cass County, NE, Sarpy County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 8, 6:20 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 60La Platte, NELarge tree limbs blown down.

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 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.

NWS Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 8, 2:37 AM CDT, 15 hours 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 2:37 AM CDT, 15 hours 40 minutes before
CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
237 AM CDT MON JUN 8 1998

THUNDERSTORMS ARE MAIN CONCERN FOR THIS FORECAST.

SFC BNDRY STILL STRETCHED ALONG KS/NE BDR EARLY THIS MORNING WITH
LOW LVL MOISTURE CONTINUING TO ADVECT NORTHWARD ABOARD STRONG SRLY
WINDS.  WHILE LARGE SHIELD OF SHOWERS/TSTMS CONTINUES TO REDVLP OVER
AREA AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST...STRONGER CELLS HAVE DVLPD OVER WC KS ON
NOSE OF UPPER JET MAX HAULING IN FROM SW.  PLENTY OF SHORT WAVE
ENERGY STILL WAITING TO KICK OUT OF ROCKIES ALONG WITH SFC LOW WHICH
WAS OVER EC COLORADO AT 06Z.

STRONG UPPER DYNAMICS ALONG WITH LOW LVL MSTR CONVERGENCE AND
DIRECTIONAL SHEAR NEAR BNDRY WILL CONTRIBUTE TO POSSIBILITY OF SVR
WX TODAY WITH EAST MOST FAVORED DUE TO TIME OF DAY OF PARAMETERS
COMING TOGETHER.  SPC MDT RISK FROM ERN GID COUNTIES EWD LOOKS GOOD.

ETA APPEARED TO BE DOING WELL WITH DETAILS THUS FAR AND HAVE OPTED
TO FOLLOW THROUGH PERIOD.  WILL KEEP IN CHANCES FOR EVENING
THUNDERSTORMS AND GO WITH HIGHEST POPS OVER SE FA IN MOST UNSTABLE
AIR.  ETA INDICATES CINH TO TAKE OVER AS DRIER AIR PUSHES IN TNGT.

TEMPS TRICKY TODAY AND DEPENDENT ON LOW CLOUD COVER NORTH OF FRONT.
FAN NUMBERS ARE EXTREMELY COOL AND SUSPECT WITH DYNAMICS OF
SITUATION AND DRY PUNCH INTO SW FA TAFTN THAT FWC ALSO TOO COOL FOR
NORTHERN AREAS.  WILL GO WITH BLEND OF FWC AND ETA BLYR TEMPS TODAY.

WITH OUTFLOW BNDRY LIKELY AFTER TNGTS CONVECTION...ANY RETURN
MOISTURE TUESDAY LIKELY TO BE INITIALLY CUT OFF.  THEREFORE WILL
LEAVE OUT ANY MENTION OF TSTMS ON TUESDAY DESPITE ETAS MOVEMENT OF
500MB WAVE ACROSS AREA TUES AFTN.  TSTMS WILL WAIT FOR BETTER MSTR
RETURN AND 700MB WAVE TUESDA NIGHT.  TEMPS TUESDAY ON COOLER SIDE OF
GUIDANCE UNDER PARTIAL SUNSHINE.

GRI TB 074/057/076/059/080 +31

DROZD

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:21 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXLancaster33 min
Jun 8, 5:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXSaunders5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1998Every severe thunderstorm 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.