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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 176, NWS Omaha, NE

May 27, 2004Fremont County, Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2004, 12:03 PM CDT for Fremont County, Iowa. It was in force for 27 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: May 27, 2004, 12:03 PM CDT (17:03 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2004, 12:30 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Fremont County, IA

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:06 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
May 27, 11:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 97 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -239 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 906 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 May 27, 4:45 AM CDT, 7 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 4:45 AM CDT, 7 hours 18 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
445 AM CDT THU MAY 27 2004

.DISCUSSION...
SHORT TERM CONCERNS EARLY THIS MORNING...CONVECTION THAT HAS
STEADILY DEVELOPED NORTHWARD INTO NE KS AND ISOLD ECHOES IN SE NEB
...STRATUS AND FOG...AND RISK FOR ISOLD TSRA TONIGHT AND FRI
NIGHT.  BEYOND FRIDAY...CHANCE OF TSRA SAT THROUGH MON AND POTENTIAL
FOR HEAVY RAIN AND SEVERE...TEMPERATURES THROUGHOUT THE PERIOD.

THE LATEST SURFACE MAP HAS THE FCST AREA IN-BETWEEN FRONTAL
SYSTEMS...WITH ONE CENTER OF LOW PRESSURE OVER NRN MN AND A TROF
EXTENDING SOUTHWARD INTO NEBRASKA E OF ONL.  THE SECOND AREA OF LOW
PRESSURE WAS OVER SOUTHWEST KANSAS...WITH THE FRONT DRAPED ACRS SRN
KS AND SRN MO. WITH THE SFC TROF...THERE HAVE BEEN A FEW ECHOES OVER
NE NEB AND A FEW AHEAD OF THE TROF IN OVER HALL THRU YORK COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA. OF NOTE ON THE STLT 11-3.9 MICRON SATELLITE
IMAGERY WAS THAT THE STRATUS WAS MAKING NORTHWARD PROGRESS INTO NE
KS AND VISIBILITIES WERE BEGINNING TO COME DOWN AT MCI AND TOP.  THE
RETURN OF HIGHER DEWPOINTS WAS NOTED YESTERDAY...WITH 1 DEG DEWPOINT
SPREADS PROGGED.  THE SOUNDING FROM OAX THIS EVENING HAD SOME CAPE
(400 J/KG) AND BUFKIT WAS A BIT MORE AGGRESSIVE WITH 700-1000 J/KG
DURING THE EVENING.

THIS MORNING...CONVECTION HAS DEVELOPED NORTHWARD INTO SE NEBRASKA
AND ALSO SOME MID CLOUDS WERE THICKENING OVER CNTRL NEB.  RH NOSES
INTO SE NEB EARLY THIS AM WITH FAVORABLE THETA-E ADVECTION...AND
QUICKLY MOVES INTO SE IA AND MO.  THERE WAS ALSO A JET STREAK
PASSING THROUGH THE CENTRAL PLAINS. IN ADDITION...LOW CLOUDS AND FOG
HAVE PRESSED NORTHWARD AND WILL LIKELY EXPAND THIS MORNING...BEFORE
SHIFTING TO THE EAST AND GIVING WAY. ISOLATED -TSRA WERE INCLUDED
EARLY ON IN SE NEB AND SW IA. AREAS OF FOG...SOME PATCHY NCNTRL AND
SOME DENSE SE WERE MENTIONED. LOOK FOR PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES THIS
AFTERNOON AS THE TROF SHIFTS OFF TO THE E WITH NORTHWEST WINDS.
HIGHS WERE IN THE 70S WED AND LOOK FOR READINGS TO RANGE FROM THE
UPR 70S N TO MID 80S SOUTH.

THE PATTERN HAS SOME SUBTLE SHORTWAVE TROF PASSAGES LIKE THE ONE WED
EVE.  THESE ARE TOUGH TO TIME AND DO NOT GIVE MUCH COVERAGE.  THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...THERE IS ANOTHER JET STREAK WHICH WILL
AFFECT NE NEB AND WRN IA AND SOME RH AVAILABLE AND SOME INSTABILITY
...THOUGHT THERE MAY BE ISOLATED -TSRA POSSIBLE NE.  FRIDAY
MORNING...WAA INCREASES AND THE MID LEVEL RIDGE BUILD. S WINDS TO
RETURN HIGHER LEVEL RH TO THE AREA AND SOME CHC OF -TSRA POSSIBLE.
HAVE ONLY MENTIONED ISOLD -TSRA NORTH.  TEMPERATURES WILL BE TRICKY
WITH A MIX OF CLOUDS AND SUN.  HAVE HIGHS FRIDAY IN THE 80S.  THE
LOW LEVEL JET INCREASES FRI AFTERNOON AND EVENING ALONG WITH THE
INSTABILITY FROM HEATING DURING THE DAY.  COULD SEE A -TSRA IN THE
CWA AND INCLUDED A MENTION IN THE SE.

BEYOND FRIDAY...A MID LATITUDE TROF ADVANCES EASTWARD INTO THE
PLAINS AND A SFC FRONT OVER THE WRN PLAINS MOVES INTO THE CWA.   THE
STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS KEPT THE CWA OUT OF THE SLIGHT
RISK...HOWEVER...HPC HAS A 1 TO 3 INCH BULLSEYE OF RAINFALL OVER WRN
IA WITH THE SLOW MOVING FRONT.  WHILE THE ETA FAVORS NE
NEBRASKA...THE GFS FAVORS WRN IA.  INCREASED POPS FOR SAT AFTERNOON
AND SATURDAY NIGHT AND MENTIONED HEAVY RAINFALL IN THE IA ZONES.
ERN NEB COULD SEE THE HEAVY RAIN AS WELL...SO WILL NEED TO WATCH
THIS.  MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD HAVE ENDED BY SUN
AM...HOWEVER LEFT IN SOME POPS SUN AND MON DUE TO VARIABILITY OF CHC
OF RAIN THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS.  ...THUS THE HOLIDAY IS NOT LOOKING
AS PESSIMISTIC. TUESDAY THRU THUR HIGHS SHOULD BE IN THE 70S
DEPENDING ON HOW BROAD THE TROF OVER SRN CANADA AND THE NORTHERN
PLNS IS.

&&

.OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NE...NONE.
IA...NONE.

&&

NOTE...EFFECTIVE 1200 UTC JUNE 8TH THE AWIPS PRODUCT IDENTIFIER
/PID/ FOR THE AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION ISSUED BY OMAHA WFO WILL
CHANGE TO OMAAFDOAX.  THE WMO CODE WILL REMAIN

Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 6:00 AM CDT, 6 hours 3 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
May 27, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Nemaha, Richardson	44 min
May 27, 12:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Page	46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 2004 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.