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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2000, 2:43 PM CDT for Colfax County, Dodge County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 2000, 2:43 PM CDT (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2000, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Colfax County, NE, Dodge County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:43 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, 3:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | North Bend, NE | Thunderstorm winds caused a large tree limb to fall on a car causing some damage. |
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 25, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 50 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.
000 WFUS53 KOAX 251943 TOROMA NEC037-053-252015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 243 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DODGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA COLFAX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 315 PM CDT * AT 238 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION AND A POSSIBLE TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF SCHUYLER...OR ABOUT 16 MILES EAST OF COLUMBUS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO THROUGH 315 PM CDT INCLUDE...NORTH BEND...NICKERSON...WINSLOW... 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 SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN IOWA AND EASTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4158 9713 4140 9710 4145 9639 4168 9643 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, 1:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Platte | 23 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, 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.