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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at May 17, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT for Colfax County, Platte County, Stanton County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 17, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Colfax County, NE, Platte County, NE, Stanton County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 1753 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 902 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
986 WFUS53 KOAX 172247 TOROMA NEC037-141-167-172315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 545 PM CDT WED MAY 17 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWEST COLFAX COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA NORTHEASTERN PLATTE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA STANTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 544 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR CRESTON NORTHWEST OF LEIGH...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH OF COLUMBUS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO THROUGH 615 PM CDT INCLUDE... CLARKSON...OTHERWISE MAINLY RURAL AREAS. 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 HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY WEATHER SPOTTERS. TAKE COVER NOW IN A BASEMENT OR ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A STRONG BUILDING. CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN IOWA AND EASTERN NEBRASKA. BYRD NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Boone, Platte | 64 min |
| May 17, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope, Madison, Pierce | 34 min |
| May 17, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Platte | 29 min |
| May 17, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Madison, Platte, Stanton | 30 min |
| May 17, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cuming, Stanton, Wayne | 45 min |
| May 17, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Wayne | 47 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.