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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2000, 11:33 PM CDT for Wayne County, Nebraska. It was in force for 42 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
- May 7, 2000, 11:33 PM CDT (04:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2000, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, NE
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 7, 10:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 2120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1168 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
506 WUUS53 KOAX 080433 SVROMA NEC179-080515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 1133 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WAYNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT * AT 1133 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 4 MILES NORTH OF CARROLL TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WINSIDE...OR FROM 5 TO 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF NORFOLK...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 1215 AM CDT INCLUDE... WAYNE...WINSIDE AND CARROLL THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...DAMAGING WINDS GREATER THAN 60 MILES AN HOUR...HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN OMAHA. $$ MILLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope, Knox | 59 min |
| May 7, 10:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Knox | 46 min |
| May 7, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cedar, Knox | 51 min |
| May 7, 11:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Madison, Platte | 46 min |
| May 8, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Colfax | 40 min |
| May 8, 1:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Lancaster, Saunders, Seward | 53 min |
| May 8, 1:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Saline, Seward | 47 min |
| May 8, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster, Saunders | 47 min |
| May 8, 2:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Johnson, Otoe | 49 min |
| May 8, 2:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pawnee | 49 min |
| May 8, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Sarpy, Saunders | 45 min |
| May 8, 3:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Nemaha, Otoe | 28 min |
| May 8, 3:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Richardson | 31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.