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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2000, 1:22 PM CDT for Platte County, Nebraska. It was in force for 23 min. 1 report 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 25, 2000, 1:22 PM CDT (18:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2000, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Platte County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 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 25, 1:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Lindsay, NE | Thunderstorm winds estimated around 70 mph broke power poles and overturned center pivots near Lindsay. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 371 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -296 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1430 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
024 WFUS53 KOAX 251822 TOROMA NEC141-251845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 122 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PLATTE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 145 PM CDT * AT 116 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AND TRAINED SPOTTERS CONFIRM A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LINDSAY...OR ABOUT 24 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBUS...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO THROUGH 145 PM CDT INCLUDE...CORNLEA...TARNOV...HUMPHREY...CRESTON... 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWESTERN IOWA AND EASTERN NEBRASKA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN IOWA AND EASTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4175 9778 4157 9778 4154 9720 4177 9719 FOBERT NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 8:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Otoe | 34 min |
| Jun 25, 11:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Thurston | 31 min |
| Jun 25, 12:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Thurston | 27 min |
| Jun 25, 12:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Thurston | 4 hr |
| Jun 25, 12:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Madison, Stanton | 49 min |
| Jun 25, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Boone, Platte | 51 min |
| Jun 25, 1:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Colfax, Platte | 31 min |
| Jun 25, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cedar, Knox | 43 min |
| Jun 25, 2:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Burt, Cuming | 28 min |
| Jun 25, 2:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pierce | 38 min |
| Jun 25, 2:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Colfax, Platte | 31 min |
| Jun 25, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt | 41 min |
| Jun 25, 2:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Colfax, Dodge | 32 min |
| Jun 25, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Saunders | 45 min |
| Jun 25, 3:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cass, Sarpy, Saunders | 28 min |
| Jun 25, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Douglas | 44 min |
| Jun 25, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Sarpy, Saunders | 45 min |
| Jun 25, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster, Seward | 27 min |
| Jun 25, 4:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Dodge | 4 hr |
| Jun 25, 4:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Lancaster | 23 min |
| Jun 25, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Otoe | 43 min |
| Jun 25, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Saline | 26 min |
| Jun 25, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster | 30 min |
| Jun 25, 5:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Thurston | 6 hr |
| Jun 25, 5:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Lancaster, Saline, Seward | 4 hr |
| Jun 25, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Jefferson, Johnson | 43 min |
| Jun 25, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Nemaha | 46 min |
| Jun 25, 6:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Otoe | 4 hr |
| Jun 25, 6:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Nemaha, Richardson | 4 hr |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.