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Tornado Warning 71, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1998, 4:08 PM CDT for Lancaster County, Saline County, Nebraska. It was in force for 62 min. 4 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
- Jun 29, 1998, 4:08 PM CDT (21:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 5:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lancaster County, NE, Saline County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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 29, 4:20 PM CDT | Hail 2 | Crete, NE | Car windshields broken. |
| Jun 29, 4:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Roca, NE | |
| Jun 29, 4:47 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Bennet, NE | |
| Jun 29, 4:51 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Kramer, 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KOMA 292108 RRA TOROMA NEC109-151-292210- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 408 PM CDT MON JUN 29 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SALINE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA LANCASTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA * UNTIL 510 PM CDT * AT 406 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 19 MILES WEST OF LINCOLN OR 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF CRETE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DENTON AT 415 PM CDT CRETE AT 415 PM CDT SPRAGUE AT 430 PM CDT AT 350 PM CDT...A BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN WAS REPORTED 5 MILES EAST OF UTICA NEAR HWY 34. 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 ABANDON8ED. ZAPOTOCNY &
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 29, 1:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 43 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, 2 hours 43 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Richardson | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pawnee | 49 min |
| Jun 28, 11:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Richardson | 49 min |
| Jun 28, 11:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Richardson | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 12:22 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 9:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Knox | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 10:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Knox | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 10:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cedar, Pierce | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 11:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Wayne | 50 min |
| Jun 29, 11:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cuming, Thurston | 46 min |
| Jun 29, 11:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Burt | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Seward | 50 min |
| Jun 29, 3:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Seward | 51 min |
| Jun 29, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage | 61 min |
| Jun 29, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Otoe | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Johnson | 49 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.