Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 26, 2000, 3:10 PM CST for Richardson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 20 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 26, 2000, 3:10 PM CST (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2000, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
County Richardson County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 3:15 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Rulo, NE |
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 nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 2530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KOAX 262112 SVROMA NEC147-262130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 310 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN RICHARDSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA * UNTIL 330 PM CST * AT 309 PM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF FALLS CITY OR NEAR RULO... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RULO THROUGH 320 PM CST THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...GREATER THAN 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER AND DjESTRUCTIVE WINDS OF OVER 60 MPH. GET INTO A SAFE BUILDING...AWAY FROM WINDOWS OR GLASS DOORS. BCM
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 Mar 26, 2:48 PM CST, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 2:48 PM CST, 22 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
250 PM SUN MAR 26 2000
A LITTLE BUSY MONITORING SERN CORNER OF CWA AND ISSUING WARNINGS...
SO DISCUSSION WILL BE SHORT. WILL CONTINUE THE WIND ADVISORY INTO
THE EVENING...AND LET NEXT SHIFT CANCEL IT WHEN WIND DROPS. FNT IS
JUST ABOUT OUT OF THE AREA...AND WILL NOT INCLUDE ANY MENTION OF
PCPN FOR THIS EVENING. AIRMASS MOVING IN FROM THE DKTS IS QUITE
DRY WITH SFC DEWPOINTS IN THE 20S...SO SHOULD DROP TO THE 30 TO 35
DEGREE RANGE N AND NW OF OFK. OTHER AREAS WILL DROP INTO THE MID
OR UPPER 30S.
DRY WEATHER FOR MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. SFC WINDS SHOULD INCREASE
TO AT LEAST BREEZY CATEGORY ON MONDAY. SECONDARY PUSH OF COLD AIR
MOVES DOWN LATE IN THE DAY. 500 MB RIDGE OVER THE ROCKIES FLATTENS
AS SHORTWAVE MOVES NEWD FROM THE SWRN U.S. ON TUESDAY. NGM AND AVN
MOS ARE PRETTY CLOSE FOR MONDAY INTO TUESDAY AND HAVE NO STRONG
REASON TO DEVIATE SGFNTLY...SO WILL NOT STRAY FAR FROM THOSE NUMBERS.
.OMA...THIS EVENING.TODAY...WIND ADVISORY MUCH OF ERN NE AND
SWRN IA NW OF A LINE FROM AROUND EAST OF BIE TO RDK.
MILLERIn the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 26, 2:16 PM CST, 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
216 PM CST SUN MAR 26 2000
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0110 PM AVOCA NE .75 INCH HAIL
03/26/00 CASS REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0130 PM 2 NE OTOE NE 1 INCH HAIL
03/26/00 OTOE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 1:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Otoe | 35 min |
| Mar 26, 2:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Richardson | 34 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.