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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Omaha, NE

June 24, 1998Pawnee County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1998, 12:37 AM CDT for Pawnee County, Nebraska. It was in force for 48 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: Jun 24, 1998, 12:37 AM CDT (05:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1998, 1:25 AM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Pawnee County, NE

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 23, 7:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jun 23, 11:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 2696 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 319 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 13.9

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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

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 12:14 AM CDT, 23 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 7:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Colfax, Platte	34 min
Jun 23, 7:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Thurston	51 min
Jun 23, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cuming, Wayne	62 min
Jun 23, 7:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Knox	65 min
Jun 23, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saline	48 min
Jun 23, 7:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Colfax, Platte	33 min
Jun 23, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Cuming, Stanton, Wayne	45 min
Jun 23, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Dodge	49 min
Jun 23, 8:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Cuming	48 min
Jun 23, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Platte	66 min
Jun 23, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler, Saline, Seward	61 min
Jun 23, 8:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Burt, Washington	49 min
Jun 23, 8:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cedar	49 min
Jun 23, 8:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Dodge	32 min
Jun 23, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Lancaster, Saunders	62 min
Jun 23, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cuming	47 min
Jun 23, 9:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Platte	36 min
Jun 23, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Dodge, Washington	61 min
Jun 23, 9:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Cuming, Dodge	5 hr
Jun 23, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Colfax	48 min
Jun 23, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cuming, Stanton	61 min
Jun 23, 9:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Burt	6 hr
Jun 23, 10:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Washington	35 min
Jun 23, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt	64 min
Jun 23, 10:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Burt	29 min
Jun 23, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cedar	34 min
Jun 23, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage	45 min
Jun 24, 1:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Richardson	36 min
Jun 23, 8:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Monona	33 min
Jun 23, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Monona	48 min
Jun 23, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Monona	64 min
Jun 23, 11:12 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Monona	7 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1998 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.