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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Omaha, NE

April 22, 2001Burt County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 22, 2001, 8:05 PM CDT for Burt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Apr 22, 2001, 8:05 PM CDT (01:05 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 2001, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Burt County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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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 22, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 52 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: 965 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 259 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 242 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 5.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KOAX 230105
TOROMA
NEC021-230130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
805 PM CDT SUN APR 22 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BURT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 801 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION
  AND A POSSIBLE TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF TEKAMAH...OR ABOUT 31 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF OMAHA...MOVING NORTH AT 55 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  TEKAMAH
  DECATUR

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...GO TO A BASEMENT. IF A BASEMENT
IS NOT AVAILABLE...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. AVOID WINDOWS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN IOWA AND EASTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4168 9642 4168 9616 4184 9612 4204 9626

$$
FOBERT

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Apr 22, 3:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 3:00 PM CDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
300 PM CDT SUN APR 22 2001

MAIN FORECAST CONCERN IS PSBL SVR CONVECTION THRU THIS EVENING BUT
ALSO THEN WIND ALL ZONES TNGT AND THEN TEMPS...SPCLY AS IT COULD
INFLUENCE PCPN TYPE NWRN ZONES.  AVN IS A LTL FASTER WITH SPEED OF
SFC LOW THAN ETA AND NGM...WHICH ARE FAIRLY CLOSE.  WL USE COMP BTWN
ETA AND AVN.

SHORT TERM...CNVCTN INCREASING NEAR DRYLINE FM XTRME SCNTRL NEBR
INTO KS AIDED BY UPR DIVERGENCE AS JET SEGMENT LIFTS ACRS WRN KS AHD
OF UPR LOW.  OTHER ELEVATED CONVECTION DVLPG N OF WRMFNT WHICH HAS
BOWED N TO NR A OLU-TO JUST N OF TQE LINE AT 20Z.  WITH 50-70KT SRLY
MID LVL FLOW...NEBR STORMS WERE RAPIDLY MOVG N OF FNT BCMG MORE
ELEVATED BUT THIS COULD CHANGE THROUGH EARLY EVENING AS OUTFLOW
BNDRYS BCM THROWN INTO THE MIX.  WL CONT MENTION OF SVR TSTMS THIS
EVENING MOST ZONES.  BELIEVE HEAVIER RAIN THREAT WL BE SHIFTING OUT
OF NERN NEBR NEXT SVRL HRS BUT WL MONITOR.  NEXT CONCERN ARE SFC
WNDS WHICH WERE APPROACHING WIND ADVSRY IN WRM SECTOR SERN ZONES.
ALSO...SUBSIDENCE BHND DEPARTING LOW AND 50-60KT 850 MB WNDS FCST
WITH STG COLD ADVCTN TNT NWRN ZONES POINT TO STG WINDS DVLPG ON
BACKSIDE OF LOW.  WL ISSUE WIND ADVSRY NWRN ZONES FOR LATER TNGT AND
MONITOR SRN ZONES THIS EVENING.  COORDINATED WITH GID.  SOME 40 DEG
TEMP RANGE ACRS CWA THIS AFTN...AND STG COLD ADVCTN LATER TNGT WL
CHANGE THIS CONTRAST...SPCLY WITH AFTN HIGHS MON.  WITH SNOW JUST TO
W/NW OF CWA...WL CONT MENTION OF PCPN CHANGING TO SNOW NWRN ZONES
BUT NO ACCUM ATTM.

WL KEEP SMALL POPS IN THE MORNING...MAINLY N/E ZONES...ON MON BUT
PUSH BACK PARTIAL CLEARING TIL LATE E WITH HIGHS A FEW DEG BLO GUID.
WK SHRTWVS TO PIVOT OVR BUILDING UPR RDG MON NGT/TUE WITH WK WSHFT
COMING ACRS FCST AREA LATE TUE.  PCPN CHCS WITH IT LOOK PRETTY
REMOTE...BUT WL KEEP SLGT CHC IN TUE AFTN WITH WSHFT.  WL NOT
MENTION RAIN IN WARM ADVCTN MON NGT...ALTHOUGH WRM ADVCTN LATE
SHOULD HELP KEEP MOST LOWS ABV FREEZING.  WITH SFC WNDS BCMG SWRLY
TUE...AND CONTD WRM ADVCTN THRU 18Z AT LEAST...WL RUN HIGHS CLOSE TO
FWC/MAV BLEND WHICH ARE A LTL WRMER THAN PREV FCST.

.OMA...WIND ADVSR8Y TNGT ALONG AND NW OF A LINE FM OLU TO HARTINGTON
LINE
CHERMOK

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 22, 4:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
454 PM CDT SUN APR 22 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0400 PM    NORFOLK                   NE   .75 INCH HAIL
04/22/01   MADISON                        REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

0429 PM    NORFOLK                   NE   1 INCH HAIL
04/22/01   MADISON                        REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0445 PM    2 NW OBERT                NE   .88 INCH HAIL
04/22/01   CEDAR                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Apr 22, 6:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
612 PM CDT SUN APR 22 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0555 PM    GREENWOOD                 NE   .75 INCH HAIL
04/22/01   CASS                           REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0600 PM    3 N EAGLE                 NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/22/01   CASS                           REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saunders	31 min
Apr 22, 7:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Saunders	30 min
Apr 22, 7:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Washington	36 min
Apr 22, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Washington	27 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.