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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2000, 3:58 PM CDT for Dodge County, Saunders 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 13, 2000, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Dodge County, NE, Saunders County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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 13, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 32 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
- 997 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -254 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KOAX 132059 TOROMA NEC025-153-155-132130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 358 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SARPY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA SAUNDERS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA CASS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 354 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AND TRAINED SPOTTERS CONFIRM A TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF GREENWOOD...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTHEAST OF LINCOLN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO THROUGH 430 PM CDT INCLUDE...ASHLAND...MEMPHIS...SOUTH BEND...LOUISVILLE...CHALCO... SPRINGFIELD... 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 WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN IOWA AND EASTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4100 9657 4082 9633 4118 9585 4119 9633 FOBERT NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope, Knox | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 12:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Platte | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 2:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Saunders | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Douglas, Sarpy, Saunders | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Lancaster | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 2:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Douglas, Sarpy | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 2:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Lancaster, Otoe, Saunders | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Washington | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 2:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cass, Sarpy | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Douglas | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Jefferson | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 3:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Otoe | 27 min |
| Jun 13, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster, Saline, Seward | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 3:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cass | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Otoe | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee | 39 min |
| Jun 13, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cass | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Sarpy | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cass, Sarpy | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Burt, Washington | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Richardson | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Lancaster | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Richardson | 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.