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Tornado Warning 65, NWS Omaha, NE

June 12, 2004Saline County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2004, 3:58 PM CDT for Saline County, Nebraska. It was in force for 62 min. 5 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, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2004, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
62 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), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 12, 4:09 PM CDTHAIL 14 Sw Dorchester, NE
Jun 12, 4:20 PM CDTHAIL 2Wilber, NESIXTH AND L STREETS WEST OF WILBER
Jun 12, 4:35 PM CDTHAIL 0.88Crete, NE
Jun 12, 4:55 PM CDTHAIL 12 Nw Wilber, NE
Jun 12, 4:59 PM CDTTSTM WND GST 69Wilber, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 12, 11:45 AM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 104 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 12:00Z on 2004-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 232 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 12:00Z on 2004-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 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
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.

070 
WFUS53 KOAX 122058
TOROAX
NEC151-122200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 353 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WITH A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES
  SOUTH OF DORCHESTER...OR ABOUT 27 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEATRICE...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WILBER...DORCHESTER
  CRETE

LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A LARGE ROTATING WALL CLOUD 8 MILES WEST OF 
WILBER.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF
THIS TORNADO GO BELOW GROUND LEVEL IF POSSIBLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A
SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN IOWA AND EASTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4059 9730 4042 9718 4044 9692 4069 9691
      4070 9703

$$

DEWALD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 10:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSaline51 min
Jun 12, 11:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSaline45 min
Jun 12, 12:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXGage, Lancaster47 min
Jun 12, 12:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSaunders30 min
Jun 12, 12:25 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXSaunders35 min
Jun 12, 12:34 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXDodge, Saunders, Washington56 min
Jun 12, 12:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCass, Douglas, Sarpy36 min
Jun 12, 12:49 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXGage41 min
Jun 12, 12:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXJohnson, Otoe67 min
Jun 12, 12:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXLancaster46 min
Jun 12, 1:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCass31 min
Jun 12, 2:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSarpy, Saunders42 min
Jun 12, 2:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSaline43 min
Jun 12, 2:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSeward41 min
Jun 12, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSaunders47 min
Jun 12, 3:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXDouglas31 min
Jun 12, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSaline45 min
Jun 12, 3:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXSaline6 hr
Jun 12, 3:19 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXSaline41 min
Jun 12, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXDouglas, Saunders31 min
Jun 12, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXButler31 min
Jun 12, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSarpy29 min
Jun 12, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXAntelope25 min
Jun 12, 4:13 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXDouglas6 hr
Jun 12, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXDouglas31 min
Jun 12, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXAntelope40 min
Jun 12, 4:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXBoone38 min
Jun 12, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSarpy31 min
Jun 12, 4:32 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXLancaster58 min
Jun 12, 4:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXSarpy6 hr
Jun 12, 4:59 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXSaline46 min
Jun 12, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXBoone35 min
Jun 12, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXOtoe40 min
Jun 12, 5:25 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXLancaster4 hr
Jun 12, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXLancaster45 min
Jun 12, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSaline44 min
Jun 12, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXGage56 min
Jun 12, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCass, Otoe47 min
Jun 12, 6:17 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXGage3 hr
Jun 12, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXJohnson, Pawnee56 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.