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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Omaha, NE

March 27, 2004Douglas County, Sarpy County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 2004, 6:38 PM CST for Douglas County, Sarpy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 22 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
Mar 27, 2004, 6:38 PM CST (00:38 UTC)
Expired
Mar 27, 2004, 7:00 PM CST
In force
22 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Douglas County, NE, Sarpy County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 24 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 2004-03-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 198 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 2004-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 223 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
198 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
361 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.3

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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.