Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2000, 11:38 PM CDT for Cedar County, Wayne County, Nebraska. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- May 29, 2000, 11:38 PM CDT (04:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2000, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Cedar County, NE, Wayne County, NE
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:39 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.
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 29, 9:45 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 149 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
- 1110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2786 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KOAX 300439 TOROMA NEC027-179-300530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 1138 PM CDT MON MAY 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CEDAR COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA WAYNE COUNTY * UNTIL 1230 AM CDT * AT 1136 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BELDEN...OR ABOUT 22 MILES NORTH OF NORFOLK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BELDEN AROUND MIDNIGHT CDT HARTINGTON...COLERIDGE AROUND 1215 AM CDT TAKE COVER NOW IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A STRONG BUILDING. CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW. LAT...LON 4244 9744 4235 9727 4249 9705 4265 9725 ZAPOTOCNY NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope | 44 min |
| May 29, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Boone | 44 min |
| May 29, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Madison, Platte | 45 min |
| May 29, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pierce | 45 min |
| May 29, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope | 34 min |
| May 29, 10:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Platte | 46 min |
| May 29, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Colfax, Stanton | 42 min |
| May 29, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Saline, Seward | 42 min |
| May 29, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Madison | 42 min |
| May 29, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cuming, Pierce, Wayne | 36 min |
| May 29, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster, Saunders | 49 min |
| May 29, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge | 49 min |
| May 29, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster, Saunders | 34 min |
| May 29, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge | 34 min |
| May 29, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt, Cuming, Dodge, Douglas, Washington | 59 min |
| May 29, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Sarpy | 59 min |
| May 29, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Thurston | 63 min |
| May 30, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Otoe | 56 min |
| May 30, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee | 56 min |
| May 30, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage | 56 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.