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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 173, NWS Omaha, NE

June 27, 2003Cass County, Sarpy County, Saunders County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2003, 10:36 PM CDT for Cass County, Sarpy County, Saunders County, Nebraska. It was in force for 24 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
Jun 27, 2003, 10:36 PM CDT (03:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2003, 11:00 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cass County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:36 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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 27 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2003-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 61 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2003-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
61 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3147 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXButler, Saunders26 min
Jun 27, 9:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSeward25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.