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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Omaha, NE

October 29, 2000Butler County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 29, 2000, 4:43 PM CST for Butler County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Oct 29, 2000, 4:43 PM CST (22:43 UTC)
Expired: Oct 29, 2000, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Butler County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 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
Oct 29, 4:57 PM CST	Tornado F0	Rising City, NE	A tornado touched down around 1 mile east of Rising City. Moving north, it damaged a corn crib and an old garage around 6 miles south of Bellwood and then overturned 2 center pivots and downed a few trees and power lines before lifting around 5 miles south of

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
Oct 29, 11:45 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 72 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KOAX 292243
SVROMA
NEC023-292330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
443 PM CST SUN OCT 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BUTLER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 530 PM CST

* AT 438 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF ULYSSES...
  OR ABOUT 24 MILES SOUTH OF COLUMBUS...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 530 PM CST INCLUDE
BRUNO...DAVID CITY...OCTAVIA.

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

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING FOR
PARTS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4110 9741 4097 9724 4121 9687 4137 9708

MILLER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 29, 3:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Gage	33 min
Oct 29, 4:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Boone	60 min
Oct 29, 4:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Boone	33 min
Oct 29, 4:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Otoe	34 min
Oct 29, 5:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Boone	30 min
Oct 29, 5:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Butler, Seward	44 min
Oct 29, 5:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Otoe	23 min
Oct 29, 5:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Platte	32 min
Oct 29, 5:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Cass	47 min
Oct 29, 5:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Lancaster	47 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.