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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2000, 4:11 PM CDT for Fremont County, Page County, Iowa. It was in force for 34 min. 3 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 13, 2000, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2000, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Fremont County, IA, Page County, IA
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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 13, 4:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 E | Oakland, IA | Thunderstorm winds estimated at 65 mph uprooted a tree in Oakland. |
| Jun 13, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Essex, IA | This small tornado was originally reported by a law enforcement official. The tornado was also caught on film by a storm chaser. |
| Jun 13, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Coburg, IA | This tornado was also caught on film by the same chaser that filmed the tornado by Essex Iowa. This tornado was on the ground for around 8 miles. |
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 13, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 132111 TOROMA IAC071-129-137-145-155-132145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 411 PM CDT TUE JUN 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FREMONT COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST IOWA MILLS COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST IOWA MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST IOWA PAGE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST IOWA POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST IOWA * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 404 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION AND A POSSIBLE TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RANDOLPH...OR ABOUT 39 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OMAHA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO THROUGH 445 PM CDT INCLUDE...ESSEX...SHAMBAUGH...HASTINGS...COBURG...CLARINDA... EMERSON...TREYNOR...RED OAK... 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 4135 9575 4059 9562 4060 9498 4146 9518 FOBERT NNNNV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 3:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Mills | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Harrison, Shelby | 40 min |
| Jun 13, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Fremont | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Mills | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Mills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Montgomery | 23 min |
| Jun 13, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills, Pottawattamie | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 5:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Montgomery | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont, Page | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 5:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Mills | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills, Pottawattamie | 57 min |
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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.