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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2004, 8:03 PM CDT for Richardson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 12 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
- Jun 12, 2004, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2004, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Richardson County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 3291 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1132 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KOAX 130103 SVROAX NEC147-130115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 801 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN RICHARDSON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF FALLS CITY * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 757 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF FALLS CITY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... FALLS CITY...PRESTON...RULO...BARADA WINDS OF 60 MPH OR STRONGER ARE POSSIBLE. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...GO TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4026 9574 4001 9574 4002 9540 4025 9552 $$ DEWALD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 7:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Otoe | 113 min |
| Jun 12, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Nemaha, Richardson | 45 min |
| Jun 12, 7:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Jefferson | 113 min |
| Jun 13, 3:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Butler | 28 min |
| Jun 13, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Butler | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Saunders | 63 min |
| Jun 13, 4:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Saunders | 29 min |
| Jun 13, 4:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Lancaster | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 4:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Saunders | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Lancaster | 4 hr |
| Jun 13, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cass | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster | 44 min |
| Jun 13, 5:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Otoe | 58 min |
| Jun 13, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass | 15 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.