Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 1999, 5:03 PM CDT for Jefferson County, Saline County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 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
- May 20, 1999, 5:03 PM CDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 1999, 5:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson County, NE, Saline County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 5:19 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Jansen, NE | |
| May 20, 5:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Fairbury, NE | Three trees were uprooted plus numerous large tree limbs were downed. The downed tree limbs knocked the power out to half of Fairbury for nearly an hour. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1336 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Lancaster | 50 min |
| May 20, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Jefferson, Saline | 36 min |
| May 20, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pawnee | 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.