Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 10, 2001, 11:46 PM CDT for Cuming County, Thurston County, Nebraska. It was in force for 29 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 10, 2001, 11:46 PM CDT (04:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2001, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Cuming County, NE, Thurston County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KOAX 110447 TOROMA NEC039-173-110515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 1146 PM CDT TUE APR 10 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CUMING COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA THURSTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT * AT 1146 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF BEEMER...OR ABOUT 29 MILES EAST OF NORFOLK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... PENDER...BEEMER 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. LAT...LON 4193 9704 4178 9692 4203 9655 4219 9676 CHERMOK
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 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, 2:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage | 63 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
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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.