Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Omaha, NE

Issued

Jul 5, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT (04:45 UTC)

Expired

Jul 6, 2000, 12:30 AM CDT

In force

45 min

Issued by

NWS Omaha, NE

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Antelope County, NE

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:44 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.

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.

873 
WUUS53 KOAX 060445
SVROMA
NEC003-060530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
1145 PM CDT WED JUL 5 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ANTELOPE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 1230 AM CDT

* AT 1139 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CLEARWATER...OR ABOUT 31 MILES SOUTHEAST
  OF ONEILL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BRUNSWICK AROUND MIDNIGHT CDT
  NELIGH AROUND 1210 AM CDT
  ELGIN AROUND 1215 AM CDT
  OAKDALE AROUND 1225 AM CDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. TAKE SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. KEEP AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND GLASS DOORS.

LAT...LON 4237 9826 4196 9823 4196 9787 4239 9791

B SMITH

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NWS Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 5, 3:00 PM CDT, 8 hours 45 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
300 PM CDT WED JUL 5 2000

VERY BUSY WITH LIMITED TIME FOR DISCUSSION. STRONGEST PORTION OF
THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX SHIFTING INTO SOUTHWEST IOWA ATTM. HOWEVER
APPEARS TO GOOD CHANCE FOR ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT TNGT AS VERY MOIST
AND UNSTABLE CONVERGENCES AND IS LIFTED OVER WMFNT STALLED ALONG
NEBRASKA/KANSAS BORDER INTO NRN MISSOURI. ETA AND MESO ETA ALSO
KEYING ON THIS WITH QPF AND H3 DIVERGENCE PATTERN. WITH HEAVY
RAINFALL TODAY WITH EVENING SOME ONGOING RUNOFF PRBLMS AT THIS TIME
FEEL A FFA WARRANTED TNGT FOR MUCH OF CWFA EXCEPT PSBLY AREA VCNTY
KS BORDER WHERE H7 WARMER H7 TEMPS AOA 13C-14C LIMITING SRN EXTEND
OF DVMPMNT. ACTIVITY MAY LINGER INTO ESPCLY NRN CWFA UNTIL MRNG.

APPEARS INCREASING MID LEVEL TEMPS AND BNDRY LIFTING NWD SHOULD
LIMIT CONVECTION THEREAFTER WITH SFC BNDRY LIFTING NWD. HOWEVER SOME
CONCERN BY LATE FRI OR FRI NIGHT NERN NEB AS BNDRY APPROACHES.

.OMA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TNGT...ALONG AND N OF A LINE FROM TOBIAS NEBRASKA
       TO HAMBURG AND BRADDYVILLE IA.

GW

In the hours before

IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-
042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-061200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
610 PM CDT WED JUL 5 2000

...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA...

STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER TONIGHT IN EASTERN
NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA.

THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE WITH ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE.
ALTHOUGH LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR IS WEAK...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THE MAIN THREAT DAMAGING WINDS.  THE MAIN SEVERE
THREAT IS EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY NORTH OF AN OMAHA TO
COLUMBUS LINE.  ISOLATED...SLOW MOVING STORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE
SOUTH OF THIS LINE.  ANY OF THE STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY
CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH COULD CAUSE LOCAL FLOODING.

B SMITH

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.