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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Omaha, NE

June 3, 2000Madison County, Platte County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 3, 2000, 11:13 PM CDT for Madison County, Platte County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 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: Jun 3, 2000, 11:13 PM CDT (04:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Madison County, NE, Platte County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:15 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
Jun 3, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 109 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 040414
TOROMA
NEC119-141-040445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
1113 PM CDT SAT JUN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA
  NORTHERN PLATTE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT

* AT 1109 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADISON...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF NORFOLK...MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MADISON AROUND 1120 PM CDT
  CORNLEA AROUND 1135 PM CDT
  HUMPHREY AROUND 1140 PM CDT
  TARNOV AROUND 1145 PM CDT

<LAT...LON 4197 9749 4192 9772 4154 9760 4156 9731

ZAPOTOCNY

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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, 10:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Madison, Pierce	50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.