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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Omaha, NE

April 11, 2001Gage County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 11, 2001, 2:12 AM CDT for Gage County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 min. 4 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: Apr 11, 2001, 2:12 AM CDT (07:12 UTC)
Expired: Apr 11, 2001, 3:15 AM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Gage County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:15 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
Apr 11, 2:30 AM CDT	Tornado F1	Wymore, NE	A brief touchdown of a tornado caused extensive tree damage and some roof and structual damage in Wymore. Trees were downed across highway 77 in town causing its closure. One mobile home was pushed 10 feet off of it's foundation causing some structual damage
Apr 11, 2:35 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Beatrice, NE	Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at over 60 mph caused extensive tree damage near Beatrice. The wind damage was with the same thunderstorm complex that caused the wind damage near Endicott and the tornadoes in Wymore and Virginia.
Apr 11, 2:35 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Beatrice, NE	Thunderstorm wind gusts around 70 mph reported by trained storm spotter in Beatrice.
Apr 11, 2:40 AM CDT	Tornado F2	Virginia, NE	A tornado caused extensive damage in Virginia with most of the damage occurring along a 4 block long and 1 block wide stretch through the center of town. One house was almost completely destroyed causing minor injuries to 2 people living there. Six other ho

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
Apr 11, 2:00 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 117 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 493 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KOAX 110714
SVROMA
NEC067-110815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
212 AM CDT WED APR 11 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GAGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BEATRICE

* UNTIL 315 AM CDT

* AT 210 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WIND FROM 22 MILES WEST OF
  CLATONIA TO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ODELL...OR FROM 26 MILES WEST OF
  BEATRICE TO 28 MILES SOUTH OF BEATRICE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  BARNESTON...BEATRICE...BLUE SPRINGS...CLATONIA
  ADAMS...CORTLAND...FILLEY...LIBERTY

AT 205 AM CDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED GOLFBALL-SIZED 
HAIL AND 70 TO 80 MPH WINDS 2 MILES NORTH OF THOMPSON IN JEFFERSON 
COUNTY.

THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO GOLFBALL SIZE AND 
WINDS TO 80 MPH. GO TO A SAFE PLACE INSIDE YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. 
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND GLASS DOORS.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 4052 9690 4023 9692 4002 9692 4001 9647
       2   4027 9646 4052 9648
&
MEAD

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 Apr 10, 3:06 PM CDT, 11 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 10, 3:06 PM CDT, 11 hours 6 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
306 PM CDT TUE APR 10 2001

PRIMARY CONCERNS ARE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL THROUGH
WED...RAINFALL...TEMPS...AND WINDS AS A MAJOR CYCLONE MOVES
NORTHEAST ACROSS THE AREA.

IN THE SHORT TERM...VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR FROM AMA N.E. TO TOP
AT 850 MB WAS UNDERESTIMATED BY MODELS.  ETA AGAIN SEEMS TO LOSE
SOME OF THE MOISTURE WHILE AVN REMAINS MOIST.  THIS AIR ADVECTING
NWD UNDER A SERIES OF RIPPLES IN THE UPPER JET HAS RESULTED IN
REPEAT TSTM DEVELOPMENT AND SLOWED TIEH NWD ADVANCE OF THE WARM
FRONT.  AS THIS PROCESS IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE WITH UPPER DIFL LIKELY
INCREASING AHEAD OF MAIN LOW OVERNIGHT...THE PROSPECTS FOR SVR WX
WILL CONTINUE.  ALSO THINK THE MODELS WILL REMAIN TOO FAST WITH THE
WARM FRONT.  FLOODING IS POSSIBLE...BUT STORMS SHOW FAST
MOVEMENT...SO WILL NOT HEADLINE FOR NOW.

ETA AND AVN ARE IN EXCELLENT AGREEMENT ON POSITIONS OF LOW AT SFC
AND ALOFT THRU 36 HRS...WITH ETA FASTER AFTER THAT.  DESPITE THESE
SIMILARITIES...THE AVN IS FASTER IN LIFTING THE DRY SLOT INTO OUR
AREA WEDNESDAY.  WILL TAKE A COMPROMISE SOLUTION.

WIND WILL ALSO BE A PROBLEM WED AND WED NIGHT AS THE STRONG LOW
MOVES THROUGH ERN NEB THEN MN.  GRADIENT DOES NOT LOOK QUITE AS
TIGHT AS LAST SYSTEM...SO FAR.  WINDS SHOULD DIE OUT GRADUALLY ON
THU AS WINDS ARE COUNTERACTED BY A DYING GRADIENT.

THU. NIGHT LOOKS COOL AND DRY PER GUIDANCE...WITH NO BIG CHANGES TO
EXTENDED.

.OMA...NONE.
POLLACK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Boone	37 min
Apr 10, 10:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Boone, Madison, Platte	45 min
Apr 10, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Madison, Platte, Stanton	43 min
Apr 10, 11:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Colfax, Cuming, Stanton	39 min
Apr 10, 11:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Cuming, Thurston	29 min
Apr 11, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Cuming, Thurston	40 min
Apr 11, 1:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Madison, Platte	45 min
Apr 11, 1:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Jefferson, Saline	64 min
Apr 11, 2:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Cuming, Dodge	32 min
Apr 11, 2:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Lancaster	56 min
Apr 11, 2:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Johnson, Pawnee	52 min
Apr 11, 2:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Otoe	54 min
Apr 11, 2:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Nemaha, Richardson	62 min
Apr 11, 3:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.