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Tornado Warning 64, NWS Omaha, NE

June 12, 2004Saline County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2004, 3:19 PM CDT for Saline County, Nebraska. It was in force for 41 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 12, 2004, 3:19 PM CDT (20:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2004, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Saline County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 12, 4:09 PM CDT	HAIL 1	4 Sw Dorchester, NE
Jun 12, 4:10 PM CDT	HAIL 2	8 S Friend, NE

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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, 11:45 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 108 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 232 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -305 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2084 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

284 
WFUS53 KOAX 122019
TOROAX
NEC151-122100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
319 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SALINE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 315 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WITH A POSSIBLE
  TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 2 MILES
  NORTH OF TOBIAS...OR ABOUT 32 MILES SOUTHEAST OF YORK...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  DORCHESTER
  FRIEND
  TOBIAS

THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR
THE WARNED AREA.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...GO TO A BASEMENT. IF A BASEMENT
IS NOT AVAILABLE...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. AVOID WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4062 9736 4041 9736 4052 9692 4070 9694

$$

DEWALD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 10:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saline	51 min
Jun 12, 11:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saline	45 min
Jun 12, 12:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Lancaster	47 min
Jun 12, 12:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saunders	30 min
Jun 12, 12:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Saunders	35 min
Jun 12, 12:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Dodge, Saunders, Washington	56 min
Jun 12, 12:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass, Douglas, Sarpy	36 min
Jun 12, 12:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Gage	41 min
Jun 12, 12:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Johnson, Otoe	67 min
Jun 12, 12:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Lancaster	46 min
Jun 12, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass	31 min
Jun 12, 2:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Sarpy, Saunders	42 min
Jun 12, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saline	43 min
Jun 12, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Seward	41 min
Jun 12, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saunders	47 min
Jun 12, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Douglas	31 min
Jun 12, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saline	45 min
Jun 12, 3:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Saline	6 hr
Jun 12, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Douglas, Saunders	31 min
Jun 12, 3:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Saline	62 min
Jun 12, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler	31 min
Jun 12, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Sarpy	29 min
Jun 12, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope	25 min
Jun 12, 4:13 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Douglas	6 hr
Jun 12, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Douglas	31 min
Jun 12, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope	40 min
Jun 12, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Boone	38 min
Jun 12, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Sarpy	31 min
Jun 12, 4:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Lancaster	58 min
Jun 12, 4:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Sarpy	6 hr
Jun 12, 4:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Saline	46 min
Jun 12, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Boone	35 min
Jun 12, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Otoe	40 min
Jun 12, 5:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Lancaster	4 hr
Jun 12, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Lancaster	45 min
Jun 12, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saline	44 min
Jun 12, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage	56 min
Jun 12, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass, Otoe	47 min
Jun 12, 6:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Gage	3 hr
Jun 12, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Johnson, Pawnee	56 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.