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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 233, NWS Omaha, NE

June 28, 1998Pawnee County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 1998, 11:21 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 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 28, 1998, 11:21 PM CDT (04:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1998, 12:10 AM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Pawnee County, NE

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 28, 11:38 PM CDTHail 1Pawnee City, NE

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 watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 28, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1998-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7536 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Topeka, KS at 00:00Z on 1998-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 119 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
7536 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
985 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
315 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
18.3
Supercell composite
82.8

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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 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 28, 7:28 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 9:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXRichardson32 min
Jun 28, 11:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXRichardson49 min
Jun 28, 11:55 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXRichardson6 hr
Jun 29, 12:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXGage48 min
Jun 29, 9:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXKnox64 min
Jun 29, 10:31 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXKnox34 min
Jun 29, 10:42 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXCedar, Pierce48 min
Jun 29, 11:05 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXWayne50 min
Jun 29, 11:29 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXCuming, Thurston46 min
Jun 29, 11:57 AM CDTTornado WarningOAXBurt48 min
Jun 29, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXButler, Seward50 min
Jun 29, 3:39 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXSeward51 min
Jun 29, 4:08 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXLancaster, Saline62 min
Jun 29, 4:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXGage61 min
Jun 29, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXOtoe49 min
Jun 29, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXJohnson49 min
Jun 29, 12:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMonona47 min
Jun 29, 12:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXHarrison60 min
Jun 29, 12:45 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXShelby35 min
Jun 29, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXFremont34 min
Jun 29, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXPage49 min

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.