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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 343, NWS Omaha, NE

August 16, 2004Dodge County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2004, 8:45 PM CDT for Dodge County, Nebraska. It was in force for 45 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 16, 2004, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 2004, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
45 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 01:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 37 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2004-08-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1574 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2004-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1574 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1389 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.6

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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.