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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Omaha, NE

June 19, 2000Madison County, Platte County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2000, 8:34 PM CDT for Madison County, Platte County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 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 19, 2000, 8:34 PM CDT (01:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2000, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 26 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), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 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 19, 7:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 468 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 988 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.1

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The text

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

512 
WFUS53 KOAX 200135
TOROMA
NEC119-141-200200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
834 PM CDT MON JUN 19 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 832 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AND TRAINED SPOTTERS CONFIRM A
  TORNADO 3 MILES NORTH OF NEWMAN GROVE...OR ABOUT 24 MILES SOUTHWEST
  OF NORFOLK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HUMPHREY AROUND 840 PM CDT
  CRESTON AROUND 855 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 WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4186 9782 4160 9782 4158 9732 4205 9745

SKERRITT

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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 19, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Boone	62 min
Jun 19, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Madison, Platte	54 min
Jun 19, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pierce	54 min
Jun 19, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Madison, Pierce, Platte, Stanton, Wayne	50 min
Jun 19, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Boone	63 min
Jun 19, 9:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Boone	26 min
Jun 19, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Wayne	39 min
Jun 19, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Boone, Platte	46 min
Jun 19, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Colfax, Platte, Stanton	43 min
Jun 19, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Lancaster, Saline, Seward	46 min
Jun 20, 12:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass, Otoe	43 min
Jun 20, 2:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Richardson	34 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.