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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Omaha, NE

April 26, 2000Antelope County, Pierce County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 2000, 7:09 PM CDT for Antelope County, Pierce County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 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
Apr 26, 2000, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
Expired
Apr 26, 2000, 7:40 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Antelope County, NE, Pierce County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 161 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2000-04-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2000-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 190 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1352 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
190 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
551 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KOAX 270009
TOROMA
NEC003-139-270045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
709 PM CDT WED APR 26 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL ANTELOPE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA
  SOUTHWESTERN PIERCE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 740 PM CDT

* AT 708 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF BRUNSWICK...OR ABOUT
  29 MILES NORTHWEST OF NORFOLK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  FOSTER AROUND 735 PM CDT

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET.

LAT...LON 4235 9800 4213 9809 4209 9769 4232 9755

SKERRITT(
NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 26, 7:27 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXAntelope, Madison, Pierce33 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 2000Every tornado warning in 2000Tornadoes in 2000

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.