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Tornado Warning 57, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 16, 2000, 6:38 PM CDT for Knox County, Nebraska. It was in force for 52 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
- Aug 16, 2000, 6:38 PM CDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Knox County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 6:43 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Lindy, NE | Possible thunderstorm microburst downed tress south of Lindy. A funnel cloud was also reported in the area. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -476 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1022 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 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 162339 TOROMA NEC107-170030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 638 PM CDT WED AUG 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KNOX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 633 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY STRONG ROTATION AND A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTH OF SANTEE...OR ABOUT 24 MILES WEST OF YANKTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LEWIS AND CLARK STATE RECREATION AREA NOW SANTEE AT 645 PM CROFTON AT 715 PM 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 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4281 9800 4263 9792 4275 9758 4286 9771 SKERRITT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Knox | 65 min |
| Aug 16, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cedar | 49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.