Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 22, 2002, 9:09 PM CDT for Saunders County, Nebraska. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 2002, 9:09 PM CDT (02:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2002, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Saunders County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 30 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
- 3464 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 856 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 11.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
685 WFUS53 KOAX 230209 TOROMA NEC155-230245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 909 PM CDT THU AUG 22 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SAUNDERS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 945 PM CDT * AT 906 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WESTON...OR ABOUT 22 MILES NORTH OF LINCOLN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... WESTON MALMO WAHOO ITHACA MEAD...COLON 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 4122 9692 4106 9682 4119 9635 4140 9647 MEAD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass | 37 min |
| Aug 22, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Boone, Madison | 45 min |
| Aug 22, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Otoe | 26 min |
| Aug 22, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Otoe | 27 min |
| Aug 22, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Madison | 27 min |
| Aug 22, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Otoe | 52 min |
| Aug 22, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Washington | 33 min |
| Aug 22, 9:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Douglas | 24 min |
| Aug 22, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Saunders | 29 min |
| Aug 22, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Douglas | 43 min |
| Aug 22, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Sarpy, Saunders | 29 min |
| Aug 22, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass | 54 min |
| Aug 22, 11:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Cass | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 1:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Sarpy | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 1:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Lancaster, Saunders | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 2:47 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Otoe | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 3:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Cass | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 3:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Saline | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 4:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Jefferson, Saline | 29 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.