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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Omaha, NE

June 29, 1998Johnson County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1998, 5:06 PM CDT for Johnson 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
Jun 29, 1998, 5:06 PM CDT (22:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1998, 5:55 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Johnson County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 29, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 103 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1998-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2006 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 1998-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2006 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-188 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
850 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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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 29, 1:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-
IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-292000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
125 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1998

.2..TORNADO WATCH 699 HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS SHIFTED INTO IOWA...OUT OF THE AREA
COVERED BY TORNADO WATCH 699...HOWEVER...TORNADO WATCH 700 CONTINUES
FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST IOWA UNTIL 5PM CDT.

ZAPOTOCNY
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 1:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-
IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-292000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
125 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1998

.2..TORNADO WATCH 699 HAS BEEN CANCELLED...

THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS SHIFTED INTO IOWA...OUT OF THE AREA
COVERED BY TORNADO WATCH 699...HOWEVER...TORNADO WATCH 700 CONTINUES
FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST IOWA UNTIL 5PM CDT.

ZAPOTOCNY

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, 11:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXPawnee49 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.