Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2001, 1:06 AM CDT for Antelope County, Boone County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 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 2, 2001, 1:06 AM CDT (06:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2001, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Antelope County, NE, Boone County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 1236 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.8
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, 10 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 1, 2:15 PM CDT, 10 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 215 PM CDT TUE MAY 1 2001 ALL 12Z MODELS TENDING TO SLOW SOUTHWARD MOVEMENT OF FRONT ACROSS AREA TNGT INTO WED WITH THE AVN AND NGM SLOWER OF MAJOR OPERATIONAL MODELS. BASED ON CURRENT MOVEMENT OF FRONT ALONG WITH OVERALL ETA BETTER TRACK RECORD OF HANDLING OF COLD AIR INTRUSION WILL FOLLOW NCEP LEAD AND LEAN MORE TOWARD ETA COLD FRONTAL POSITION THROUGH AROUND 48 HRS. AS CAP IS BROKEN ANTICIPATE CONVECTION TO DEVELOP BY BY AROUND 20Z TO 21Z ALONG FRONT FROM BETWEEN KODX AND KAUH TO NEAR KSUX. CONVECTION TO GRADUALLY WORK SOUTH DURING THE NIGHT WITH THE FRONT. WILL LIKELY RETAIN SOME POPS N OF FNT BUT LESS RISK SGFNT WX. BESIDES THE THREAT FOR SVR WEATHER ASSOCIATED WITH CDFNT WITH SGFNT CAPE AND SUFFICIENT SHEAR...POTENTIAL WILL ALSO INCREASE FOR AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN DURING NIGHT IN EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AS LOW LEVEL FLOW TENDS TO VEER WITH INFLUX OF INCREASING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. TRENDING TOWARD ETA MODEL BELIEVE MAIN POTENTIAL FOR SHWRS AND AND EMBEDDED TSTMS ON WED INTO WED EVE WILL BE MAINLY IN SE NEB INTO SW IA. HOWEVER CHANCE FOR RAIN INCREASING ACROSS ENTIRE AREA AGAIN LATER WED NIGHT INTO THU AS LOW LEVEL MOISTURE INFLUX INCREASES INTO THE SFC BOUNDARY AS IT TRIES TO LIFT NWD. IN ADDITION SWLY UPPER FLOW OVERRUNNING COOL DOME ALONG WITH DISTURBANCES COMING OUT OF UPPER LOW OVER SW U.S. WILL HELP GENERATE GOOD CHANCE FOR RAIN AND EMBEDDED TSTMS. BEYOND 48HRS ETA MAY BE SHIFTING UPPER LOW A BIT FAST AND AVN MODEL TREND BETTER IN EXTENDED PERIODS. EXTENDED LOOKS QUITE UNSETTLED AND WET THROUGH WEEKEND. .OMA...NONE. WIESE g
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 1, 9:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
913 PM CDT TUE MAY 01 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0646 PM MONDAMIN IA .75 INCH HAIL
05/01/01 HARRISON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0646 PM MONDAMIN IA .75 INCH HAIL
05/01/01 HARRISON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0655 PM 3 E MONDAMIN IA TORNADO
05/01/01 HARRISON REPORTED BY MEDIA.
0656 PM 3 E MONDAMIN IA 1 INCH HAIL
05/01/01 HARRISON REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR.
0704 PM 2 E MONDAMIN IA TORNADO
05/01/01 HARRISON REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0705 PM MAGNOLIA IA TORNADO
05/01/01 HARRISON REPORTED BY MEDIA.
0732 PM PERSIA IA TORNADO
05/01/01 HARRISON REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR.
0748 PM 3 N WOODBINE IA .88 INCH HAIL
05/01/01 HARRISON REPORTED dBY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR.Local storm report, May 1, 10:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1007 PM CDT TUE MAY 01 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0920 PM PETERSBURG NE .88 INCH HAIL
05/01/01 BOONE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0939 PM WISNER NE 60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/01/01 CUMING REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Special weather statement, May 1, 10:54 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-021000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 1054 PM CDT TUE MAY 1 2001 STORM SPOTTERS WILL CONTINUE TO BE NEEDED IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND WEST CENTRAL IOWA. SPOTTERS MAY ALSO BE NEEDED IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA AFTER MIDNIGHT. A STRONG LOW LEVEL JET WILL CONTINUE TO LIFT WARM AND UNSTABLE AIR OVER A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT. THE FRONT EXTENDS FROM A LOW OVER NORTHEAST COLORADO...ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA...AND INTO NORTHWEST IOWA. THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE... WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG AND NORTH OF THE FRONT OVERNIGHT. LATE TONIGHT...THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHWARD. THE LOW LEVEL JET IS ALSO EXPECTED TO WEAKEN. THIS WOULD ALLOW THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP FARTHER SOUTH...BUT THESE STORMS ARE LIKELY TO REMAIN BELOW SqEVERE LIMITS AFTER 3 AM. POLLACK
Local storm report, May 1, 11:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope, Boone | 23 min |
| May 1, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cuming, Stanton | 30 min |
| May 1, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cuming | 32 min |
| May 1, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt, Dodge | 64 min |
| May 1, 10:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Stanton | 47 min |
| May 1, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cuming | 35 min |
| May 1, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Thurston | 32 min |
| May 1, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Shelby | 24 min |
| May 1, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison | 32 min |
| May 1, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Shelby | 30 min |
| May 1, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison, Monona | 30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.