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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Omaha, NE

May 1, 2001Thurston County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2001, 2:57 PM CDT for Thurston County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 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 1, 2001, 2:57 PM CDT (19:57 UTC)
Expired
May 1, 2001, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Thurston County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 1, 2:15 PM CDT, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 2:15 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 1, 11:50 AM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1150 AM CDT TUE MAY 1 2001

THERE IS A GOOD LIKELIHOOD STORM SPOTTERS WILL BE REQUIRED THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT IN EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA.

A STRONG COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA SOUTH ACROSS
NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA...WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH SOUTHEAST
THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...REACHING FROM NORTHEAST IOWA ACROSS
SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA INTO WESTERN KANSAS BY EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING.

THE FRONT WILL BRING A GOOD CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS
AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT AS IT INTERACTS WITH AN UNSTABLE AND MOIST
AIR MASS. THE MOST LIKELY TIME FOR THUNDERSTORM FORMATION WILL
LIKELY BE AFTER 300 PM CDT. BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF ATMOSPHERIC
INSTABILITY AND WIND SHEAR...SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE SEVERE.
THE MAIN SEVERE RISK APPEARS TO BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS
ESPECIALLY IN AREAS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA INTO
SOUTHWEST IOWA.  HOWEVER A FEW TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE.

IN ADDITION...AS THE FRONT SLOWS...A LOW PRESSURE CENTER IS EXPECTED
TO DEVELOP IN WESTERN KANSAS. THIS LOW WILL HELP THE FEED OF LOW
LEVEL MOISTURE FOR THE THUNDERSTORMS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS MAY
FALL TONIGHT IN EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA INTO SOUTHWEST
IOWA.

PEOPLE ARdE ADVISED TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL RADIO AND
TELEVISION MEDIA OUTLETS FOR WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS THIS AFTERNOON
THROUGH TONIGHT.

GW

The office that day

Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 30, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXLancaster45 min
Apr 30, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSaunders48 min
Apr 30, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXThurston37 min
Apr 30, 7:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCass, Lancaster41 min
Apr 30, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXThurston32 min
Apr 30, 8:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXDouglas, Sarpy, Saunders45 min
Apr 30, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCass, Lancaster47 min
Apr 30, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXBurt43 min
Apr 30, 8:42 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXBurt, Cuming33 min
Apr 30, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSarpy45 min
Apr 30, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXDouglas36 min
Apr 30, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXBurt29 min
Apr 30, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXDouglas, Sarpy47 min
May 1, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXBurt50 min
May 1, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXBurt60 min
May 1, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXBurt29 min
May 1, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXWashington36 min
Apr 30, 8:07 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMonona23 min
Apr 30, 8:28 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXMonona32 min
Apr 30, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXHarrison, Monona46 min
Apr 30, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMills47 min
May 1, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMonona44 min
May 1, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMonona45 min
May 1, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMonona45 min
May 1, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXHarrison61 min
May 1, 6:58 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXHarrison47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.