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Tornado Warning 64, NWS Omaha, NE

July 16, 2001Madison County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 16, 2001, 8:28 PM CDT for Madison County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 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: Jul 16, 2001, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Whole counties

County Madison County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:34 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 16, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 2587 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1316 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 14.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KOAX 170129
TOROMA

NEC119-170200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
828 PM CDT MON JUL 16 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MADISON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NORFOLK

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT

* AT 823 PM CDT...STORM SOPTTERS REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUDS 4 MILES WEST 
MEADOW GROVE.  THE SEVERE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
  MEADOW GROVE
  RURAL NORTHERN MADISON

SMALL...BRIEF BUT DANGEROUS TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE. GO TO A BASEMENT
OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

LAT...LON 4207 9783 4194 9782 4195 9738 4209 9741

ZAPOTOCNY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 7:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Antelope	32 min
Jul 16, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pierce	42 min
Jul 16, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope	36 min
Jul 16, 8:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Antelope	3 hr
Jul 16, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Madison	40 min
Jul 16, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pierce	46 min
Jul 16, 8:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Antelope	36 min
Jul 16, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Madison	60 min
Jul 16, 9:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Pierce	32 min
Jul 16, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Boone	37 min
Jul 16, 9:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Madison	28 min
Jul 16, 9:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Platte	38 min
Jul 16, 9:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Boone, Madison	33 min
Jul 16, 10:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Colfax, Stanton	45 min
Jul 16, 11:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Dodge, Saunders	28 min
Jul 16, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Washington	46 min
Jul 17, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Dodge	35 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.