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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 278, NWS Omaha, NE

August 18, 2003Thurston County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 2003, 6:42 PM CDT for Thurston County, Nebraska. It was in force for 18 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: Aug 18, 2003, 6:42 PM CDT (23:42 UTC)
Expired: Aug 18, 2003, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Thurston County, NE

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 18, 2:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 18, 2:10 PM CDT, 4 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 2:10 PM CDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
210 PM CDT MON AUG 18 2003

TEMPERATURES AND PRECIP CHANCES THROUGH MIDWEEK MAIN CONCERN.

SYNOPSIS...SURFACE TROF LOCATED ACROSS CENTRAL NEBRASKA AT 18Z WITH
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING FROM NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS INTO
NORTHEAST NEBARSKA. EXTENSIVE CLOUDS ACOSS MOST OF THE AREA FROM
CONVECTION THIS MORNING THAT MOVED JUST WEST OF THE CWA. SOUTHEAST
PARTS OF THE CWA REMAIN VERY HOT WITH TEMPERATURES AROUND 100 FROM
OMAHA AND LINCOLN SOUTH. UPPER WAVE CONTINUES TO LINGER OVER THE
CENTRAL ROCKIES WITH MAIN FLOW STILL ACROSS CANADA.

WITH CONVECTION ALREADY DEVELOPING WILL INCREASE POPS ACROSS MOST
OF THE AREA FOR THIS EVENING AT LEAST WITH A CONTINUED CHANCE
THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS MODELS TRACK UPPER WAVE SLOWLY ACROSS CENTRAL
PLAINS DURING THIS TIME. TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO BE A
CHALLENGE AS SURFACE TROF LINGERS ACROSS CENTRAL NEBRASKA WITH
TEMPERATURES DEPENDANT ON AMOUNT OF CLOUD AND PRECIP COVERAGE. WILL
CONTINUE WITH CURRENT TEMPERATURE TRENDS IN FORCAST FOR TUESDAY AND
BEYOND AT THIS TIME. NOT MUCH CHANGE OTHERWISE TO REMAINDER OF THE
FORECAST.

.OMA...NONE.

FOBERT

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 18, 5:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 18, 5:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 18, 5:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 18, 5:56 PM CDT, 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 18, 6:05 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 18, 6:23 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 18, 6:27 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 18, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Lancaster, Saline	41 min
Aug 18, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Seward	43 min
Aug 18, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cuming, Stanton	46 min
Aug 18, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Johnson, Otoe	53 min
Aug 18, 5:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Colfax, Platte	46 min
Aug 18, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Dodge	28 min
Aug 18, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cuming, Thurston	49 min
Aug 18, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2003 Every 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.