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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2000, 10:59 PM CDT for Platte County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 min. 3 reports 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
- May 29, 2000, 10:59 PM CDT (03:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2000, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 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), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 11:00 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Humphrey, NE | The Humphrey police reported a brief touchdown of a small tornado in Humphrey. This tornado possibly could have been spun up on the leading edge of the bow echo which did the most damage over northwest Platte county in the Lindsay area. |
| May 29, 11:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Humphrey, NE | Besides possibly producing the spin up tornado in Humphrey, the strong winds associated with the thunderstorm that caused extensive damage in the Lindsay area, also caused damage in Humphrey. Besides tree damage, a newly erected grain bin was partially destro |
| May 29, 11:39 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Humphrey, NE | Semi truck overturned by thunderstorm wind gusts. These winds reportedly occurred behind the main line of thunderstorms, possibly a wake low type event that sometimes occurs after intense thunderstorms pass through. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 1110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2786 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KOAX 300400 TOROMA NEC141-300445- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 1059 PM CDT MON MAY 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PLATTE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1145 PM CDT * AT 1057 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND NEAR HUMPHREY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... TARNOV AROUND 1110 PM CDT CRESTON AROUND 1120 PM CDT LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED TAKE COVER NOW IN A BASEMENT OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A STRONG BUILDING. CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED. GO TO A SAFE PLACE NOW.' LAT...LON 4169 9786 4156 9770 4150 9750 4174 9733 ZAPOTOCNY NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope | 44 min |
| May 29, 10:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Boone | 44 min |
| May 29, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Madison, Platte | 45 min |
| May 29, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pierce | 45 min |
| May 29, 10:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope | 34 min |
| May 29, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Colfax, Stanton | 42 min |
| May 29, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Saline, Seward | 42 min |
| May 29, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Madison | 42 min |
| May 29, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cuming, Pierce, Wayne | 36 min |
| May 29, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster, Saunders | 49 min |
| May 29, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge | 49 min |
| May 29, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster, Saunders | 34 min |
| May 29, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge | 34 min |
| May 29, 11:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cedar, Wayne | 52 min |
| May 29, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt, Cuming, Dodge, Douglas, Washington | 59 min |
| May 29, 11:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Sarpy | 59 min |
| May 29, 11:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Thurston | 63 min |
| May 30, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Otoe | 56 min |
| May 30, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee | 56 min |
| May 30, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage | 56 min |
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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.