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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 318, NWS Omaha, NE

August 3, 2004Dodge County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2004, 4:59 PM CDT for Dodge County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 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 3, 2004, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2004, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dodge County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Aug 3, 3:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 3:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
315 PM CDT WED AUG 3 2004

.DISCUSSION...
THE PRIMARY FORECAST CHALLENGES WILL BE TEMPERATURES...ALONG WITH
TIMING OF FRONTS AND POPS.

THERE IS STILL SOME QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER FOG SHOULD BE MENTIONED
IN FCST TONIGHT.  MODELS INSIST ON LOW LEVEL DRY ADVECTION...BUT DEW
POINTS HAVE REMAINED STUBBORNLY HIGH ALL DAY...AND IT WILL NOT TAKE
MUCH RADIATION TO DROP BELOW CURRENT DEW POINTS.  DECIDED TO MENTION
PATCHY FOG TOWARD MORNING FOR ALL BUT DRIER AREA IN NORTHEAST NEB.

THU WILL BE COOL AND DRY.  FIRST CHC OF PRECIP COMES WITH RETURN
FLOW IN NORTHEAST NEB LATE THU NIGHT.  MID LEVEL MOISTURE IS PROGGED
TO INCREASE ON FRIDAY...AND DID NOT MUCH CHANGE LOW POPS ALREADY IN
THE FORECAST.

A SOMEWHAT BETTER CHANCE FOR PRECIP DURING THE WEEKEND...AS RETURN
FLOW MOISTURE INCREASES AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT.  MODELS HAVE SOME
TIMING DIFFERENCES...SO EXACT TIMING IS UNCERTAIN.  POPS WILL DEPEND
ON HOW WELL FRONT CORRESPONDS WITH DAYTIME HEATING.  TEMPS LIKELY
WARMEST IN PREFRONTAL REGIME FRI NIGHT AND SAT...THEN BEGIN DROPPING
LATER IN THE WEEKEND AS FRONT MOVES THOUGH.

MODELS DO NOT AGREE ON THE TIMING OR INTENSITY OF THE WAVE DROPPING
OUT OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS INTO THE UPPER MIDWEST EARLY NEXT WEEK.
ACCEPT HPC IDEA THAT THIS WILL BRING ANOTHER PUSH OF UNSEASONABLY
COOL AIR AND GENERALLY DRY CONDITIONS...ALTHOUGH DETAILS ARE UP FOR
GRABS THIS FAR OUT.

&&

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

&&

POLLACK
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 3:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 5:20 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXSaunders40 min
Aug 3, 5:43 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXDodge32 min
Aug 3, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXDouglas, Saunders59 min
Aug 3, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSarpy50 min
Aug 3, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXDouglas35 min
Aug 3, 6:57 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXDouglas2 hr
Aug 3, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXShelby38 min
Aug 3, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMonona39 min
Aug 3, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXPottawattamie63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2004Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.