Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at May 13, 2003, 5:19 PM CDT for Stanton County, Nebraska. It was in force for 41 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
- May 13, 2003, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stanton County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 1:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 302 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
- 212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1567 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
770 WFUS53 KOAX 132219 TOROAX NEC167-132300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 519 PM CDT TUE MAY 13 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... STANTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 518 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF STANTON...OR ABOUT 3 MILES EAST OF NORFOLK...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... STANTON PILGER THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...GET TO A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. LAT...LON 4208 9703 4190 9703 4194 9736 4208 9736 $$ ERVIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope | 44 min |
| May 13, 3:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Knox | 44 min |
| May 13, 3:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope, Knox | 53 min |
| May 13, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pierce | 49 min |
| May 13, 4:17 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Knox | 3 hr |
| May 13, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Madison | 62 min |
| May 13, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Boone | 57 min |
| May 13, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope | 36 min |
| May 13, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Madison | 35 min |
| May 13, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pierce, Stanton, Wayne | 65 min |
| May 13, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Boone | 35 min |
| May 13, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Madison | 50 min |
| May 13, 5:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cedar | 42 min |
| May 13, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Platte | 56 min |
| May 13, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Colfax | 59 min |
| May 13, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cuming, Dodge | 67 min |
| May 13, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler | 54 min |
| May 13, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Washington | 53 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.