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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Omaha, NE

June 3, 2000Pierce County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2000, 9:13 PM CDT for Pierce County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 min. 5 reports 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: Jun 3, 2000, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2000, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pierce County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 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
Jun 3, 9:15 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Plainview, NE	Another brief tornado touchdown in open country with no damage reported.
Jun 3, 9:15 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Plainview, NE	The hail broke a few car windows and damaged the siding of several houses in the area.
Jun 3, 9:30 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Plainview, NE
Jun 3, 9:50 PM CDT	Hail 2.75	Brunswick, NE	The second HP supercell also produced large hail, this report was near baseball size, about the size that fell the previous hour. The large hail broke a few car windows and damaged the siding of several houses in the area.
Jun 3, 9:55 PM CDT	Hail 2	Neligh, NE	Hail around 2 inches in diameter stripped corn and soybean fields northeast of Neligh.

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
Jun 3, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 2210 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 362 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 
WFUS53 KOAX 040214
TOROMA
NEC139-040245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
913 PM CDT SAT JUN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN PIERCE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 908 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AND TRAINED SPOTTERS CONFIRM A 
  TORNADO ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PLAINVIEW...OR ABOUT 29 
  MILES NORTHWEST OF NORFOLK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN IN OPEN COUNTRY TO THE
  WEST OF PIERCE AND SOUTHWEST OF FOSTER 

LAT...LON 4222 9804 4207 9791 4214 9760 4239 9776

SKERRITT

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Knox	52 min
Jun 3, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Knox	46 min
Jun 3, 8:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Antelope, Knox	32 min
Jun 3, 8:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cedar, Wayne	42 min
Jun 3, 9:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Antelope	30 min
Jun 3, 9:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Madison	55 min
Jun 3, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Knox	66 min
Jun 3, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pierce	58 min
Jun 3, 10:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Madison, Pierce	50 min
Jun 3, 11:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Madison, Platte	32 min
Jun 4, 1:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cedar	43 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.