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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 257, NWS Omaha, NE

June 13, 2001Colfax County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2001, 6:26 PM CDT for Colfax County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 2001, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2001, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Colfax County, NE

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 13, 6:50 PM CDTHail 0.88Clarkson, NE
Jun 13, 7:00 PM CDTHail 1Howells, NE
Jun 13, 7:10 PM CDTHail 2.75Howells, NE

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 13, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

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 Jun 13, 3:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 3:10 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
310 PM CDT WED JUN 13 2001

FORECAST CONCERN RMNS TSTM AND SVR THREAT INTO THU AND HEAVY RAIN
POTENTIAL.  ETA HAS BEEN A LTL MORE CONSISTENT AND SLOWER WITH UPR
SYS AND AVN APPEARS TO BE A LTL TOO FAST.  WL GENERALLY GO WITH THE
ETA/MESOETA.

SHORT TERM...MESO LOW HAS SHIFTED N TO NR YKN AT 20Z WITH CDFNT
ENTERING OAX EXTREME NW COUNTIES W OF OFK.  BEST LOW LVL CONVERGENCE
AND THICKEST CU FIELDS WERE ALONG AND JUST AHD OF BNDRY IN NERN NEBR
AND SERN SD.  WITH 60KT 300 MB JET FCST INTO NERN NEBR BY 00Z THIS
EVENING...INITIALLY THIS AREA APPEARS MOST AT RISK FOR SVR WX.  WL
PRBLY JUST GO SCT IN TSTM FCST TNGT W/NO POPS ACRS THE NERN ZONES
AND KEEP HIGH POPS REST OF ZONES UNLESS CONVECTION DVLPS FTHR S BFR
ZONE ISSUANCE TIME.  WITH UPR LOW TO OUR W NOT MOVG EWD MUCH
OVRNGT...SFC LOW DVLPMNT IN SERN CO THIS EVENING SHOULD KEEP BNDRY
FM GOING MUCH FTHR E TNGT ALTHO OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES COULD CONTAMINATE
SFC FNTS BY MORNING.  AS 45-70 850 MB JET...SPEED DEPENDS ON
MODEL...ETA IS THE STRONGEST...DVLPS ON E SIDE OF SFC LOW TO OUR
SE...STRONGER CNVCTN AND HEAVY RAIN THREAT COULD SHIFT AWAY FM NERN
ZONES.  SPCLY WITH HIGHER 850 MB THETA E AIR FEEDING INTO BNDRY OVR
CNTRL NEBR.  ALSO WITH NO WIDESPREAD SIGFNT RAINS MUCH OF OUR CWA WL
REFRAIN FM FLASH FLOOD WATCH ATTM.  FAR SERN ZONES RMN THE FARTHEST
REMOVED FM UPPER JET AND LOW LVL BOUNDARIES AND WL KEEP POPS LOWEST
THERE BUT STILL ABV FWC NUMBERS.  RAISED LOWS A TOUCH A FEW AREAS.

WITH SLOWER MOVEMENT OF UPR SYS AND ASSOCD SFC FNT...CWA RMNS IN
CONVECTIVE THREAT ON THU WITH PSBL SVR WX AGAIN FAR E/NE.  WL ADJUST
FCST TO MENTION TSTMS ALL ZONES W/HIGHEST POPS E/NE.  SOME COOLER
AIR COULD OCCLUDE ARND S SIDE OF SYS BUT THERE SHOULD BE ENOUGH
SUNSHINE TO ALLOW READINGS TO REACH FWC.  WITH AVN TOO FAST MAV
TEMPS LOOK TOO COOL.

WL KEEP CHC OF SHOWERS W AND TSTMS E THU EVENING AND ALSO INCREASED
POPS.  FRI LOOKS DRY.  TEMPS THU NGT MAYBE A LTL BLO FWC.  FOR
FRI...STG W COMPONENT TO LOW LVL WINDS AND PT TO MO SUNNY SKIES
SHOULD ALLOW TEMPS TO WARM NICELY WITH SOME POSSIBILITY OF THEM
SURPASSING GUID.

.OMA...NONE.
POLLACK

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 5:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCuming, Stanton29 min
Jun 13, 6:26 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXCuming, Stanton34 min
Jun 13, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXThurston, Wayne27 min
Jun 13, 6:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSaline, Seward51 min
Jun 13, 6:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXButler, Colfax51 min
Jun 13, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXCuming, Thurston, Wayne33 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.