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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Omaha, NE

June 3, 2000Madison County, Pierce County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2000, 10:25 PM CDT for Madison County, Pierce County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 min. 2 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, 10:25 PM CDT (03:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2000, 11:15 PM CDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Madison County, NE, Pierce County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:28 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, 10:34 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Meadow Grove, NE	This was probably the same tornado that was reported west of Pierce. It apparently tracked from west of Pierce into extreme northwest Madison county before lifting. No damage was reported.
Jun 3, 10:35 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Meadow Grove, 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 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, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 040327
TOROMA
NEC119-139-040415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
1025 PM CDT SAT JUN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA
  SOUTHERN PIERCE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 1115 PM CDT

* AT 1022 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF MEADOW GROVE...OR ABOUT 17 MILES WEST OF
  NORFOLK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.  A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED
  WITH THIS STORM 5 MILES WEST OF PIERCE.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BATTLE CREEK AROUND 1030 PM CDT

THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR
THE WARNED AREA.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...GO TO A BASEMENT. IF A BASEMENT
IS NOT AVAILABLE...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. AVOID WINDOWSU.

LAT...LON 4214 9794 4191 9772 4190 9738 4231 9760

MILLER

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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, 9:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Pierce	32 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, 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.