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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 290, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2004, 2:10 PM CDT for Richardson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 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
- Jul 11, 2004, 2:10 PM CDT (19:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2004, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 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), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 11:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 869 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1254 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 11, 3:20 AM CDT, 10 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 11, 3:20 AM CDT, 10 hours 50 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 11, 12:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 1227 PM CDT SUN JUL 11 2004 IAZ043-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-042-043-050-065-078-088-112300- ANTELOPE-BOONE-BURT-BUTLER-CEDAR-COLFAX-CUMING-JEFFERSON-KNOX- MADISON-MONONA IA-PIERCE-PLATTE-SALINE-SEWARD-STANTON-THURSTON-WAYNE- 1227 PM CDT SUN JUL 11 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SMALL CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS A GOOD PORTION OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH SATURDAY HOT TEMPERATURES WILL RETURN TO EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA ON MONDAY AS HIGHS REACH THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 90S. HEAT INDICES ARE EXPECTED TO REACH AROUND 100 MONDAY AFTERNOON. THE NEXT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY... WITH ANOTHER CHANCE FOR STORMS ON SATURDAY. SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE ON TUESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. IAZ055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ044-045-051>053-066>068-089>093- 112300- CASS-DODGE-DOUGLAS-FREMONT IA-GAGE-HARRISON IA-JOHNSON-LANCASTER- MILLS IA-MONTGOMERY IA-NEMAHA-OTOE-PAGE IA-PAWNEE-POTTAWATTAMIE IA- RICHARDSON-SARPY-SAUNDERS-SHELBY IA-WASHINGTON- 1227 PM CDT SUN JUL 11 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS A GOOD PORTION OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WOULD BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. THE SYSTEM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS WEATHER WILL MOVE EAST OF THE AREA BY EARLY THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH SATURDAY HOT TEMPERATURES WILL RETURN TO EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA ON MONDAY AS HIGHS REACH THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 90S. HEAT INDICES ARE EXPECTED TO REACH AROUND 100 MONDAY AFTERNOON. THE NEXT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY... WITH ANOTHER CHANCE FOR STORMS ON SATURDAY. SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE ON TUESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA THIS AFTERNOON.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 1:46 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE...CORRECTION 146 PM CDT SUN JUL 11 2004 IAZ055-056-NEZ044-045-051>053-066-089-111915- DODGE-DOUGLAS-GAGE-HARRISON IA-LANCASTER-SARPY-SAUNDERS-SHELBY IA- WASHINGTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BEATRICE...BELLEVUE...BLAIR...FREMONT... HARLAN...LINCOLN...OMAHA 146 PM CDT SUN JUL 11 2004 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 603 THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND A SMALL PART OF SOUTHWEST IOWA. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING NEBRASKA COUNTIES...DODGE...DOUGLAS...GAGE...LANCASTER... SARPY...SAUNDERS...AND WASHINGTON. THIS ALSO INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING IOWA COUNTIES...HARRISON AND SHELBY. SMITH
Special weather statement, Jul 11, 1:46 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE...CORRECTION 146 PM CDT SUN JUL 11 2004 IAZ055-056-NEZ044-045-051>053-066-089-111915- DODGE-DOUGLAS-GAGE-HARRISON IA-LANCASTER-SARPY-SAUNDERS-SHELBY IA- WASHINGTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BEATRICE...BELLEVUE...BLAIR...FREMONT... HARLAN...LINCOLN...OMAHA 146 PM CDT SUN JUL 11 2004 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 603 THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA AND A SMALL PART OF SOUTHEAST IOWA. THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING NEBRASKA COUNTIES...DODGE...DOUGLAS...GAGE...LANCASTER... SARPY...SAUNDERS...AND WASHINGTON. THIS ALSO INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING IOWA COUNTIES...HARRISON AND SHELBY. SMITH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 2:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Saunders | 49 min |
| Jul 11, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Richardson | 31 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.