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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 290, NWS Omaha, NE

August 14, 1998Thurston County, Wayne County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 1998, 9:15 PM CDT for Thurston County, Wayne County, Nebraska. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports 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
Aug 14, 1998, 9:15 PM CDT (02:15 UTC)
Expired
Aug 14, 1998, 10:20 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties

Counties Thurston County, NE, Wayne County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 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
Aug 14, 9:20 PM CDTHail 0.75Wakefield, NE
Aug 14, 9:30 PM CDTHail 0.75Emerson, 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 nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 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 00:00Z on 1998-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1450 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 00:00Z on 1998-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1450 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1657 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 14, 7:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXKnox62 min
Aug 14, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXAntelope, Knox, Pierce65 min
Aug 14, 7:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCedar66 min
Aug 14, 10:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMonona65 min
Aug 14, 11:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXHarrison64 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.