Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2000, 12:28 AM CDT for Madison County, Nebraska. It was in force for 62 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
- Jul 6, 2000, 12:28 AM CDT (05:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2000, 1:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Madison County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 2284 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 5, 3:00 PM CDT, 9 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 3:00 PM CDT, 9 hours 28 minutes before
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.
GWThe office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 11:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge, Saunders | 38 min |
| Jul 5, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 12:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Antelope, Madison, Stanton | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 12:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Colfax, Dodge, Douglas, Saunders, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 2:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge, Saunders | 26 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.