Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 55, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 1998, 8:43 PM CDT for Dodge County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 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 23, 1998, 8:43 PM CDT (01:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1998, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dodge County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 9:07 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Snyder, NE | Several outbuildings and grain bins destroyed. A house was destroyed. A machine shed destroyed. A chimney was blown off the back porch of a house. Hog barn destroyed. |
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 299 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KOMA 240143 RRA TOROMA NEC053-240215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 843 PM CDT TUE JUN 23 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DODGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 840 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 42 MILES NORTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN OMAHA OR IN THE VICINITY OF HOOPER MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING FUNNEL CLOUDS AND A FEW TORNADOES. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HOOPER NOW WINSLOW AT 844 PM CDT UEHLING AT 855 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA...TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MEAD
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 23, 5:05 PM CDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093- IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-241200- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 505 PM CDT TUE JUN 23 1998 ...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA... SPOTTER ACTION... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT IN EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. DISCUSSION... THERE IS A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT IN EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA AS VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR CONTINUES TO MOVE ACROSS THE REGION AS A WARM FRONT FROM SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA THROUGH NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTH MISSOURI LIFTS NORTH. DUE TO THE DEGREE OF INSTABILITY AND WIND SHEAR CONSIDERATIONS...SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD TURN SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER...DUE TO THE VERY MOIST NATURE OF THE ATMOSPHERE...THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS. GW
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, 8:48 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, 12:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pawnee | 48 min |
| Jun 24, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Richardson | 36 min |
Nearby
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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.