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Tornado Warning 69, NWS Omaha, NE

June 13, 2004Butler County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2004, 3:32 PM CDT for Butler County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 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 13, 2004, 3:32 PM CDT (20:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2004, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Butler County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 13, 3:53 PM CDTHAIL 24 Nne David City, NE
Jun 13, 4:08 PM CDTFUNNEL CLOUDBruno, NETHREE FUNNEL CLOUDS REPORTED.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 64 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 2004-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2004-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1481 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KOAX 132032
TOROAX
NEC023-132100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
332 PM CDT SUN JUN 13 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BUTLER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 331 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WITH A DEVELOPING
  TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 3 MILES
  WEST OF DAVID CITY...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF COLUMBUS...
  MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  DAVID CITY
  OCTAVIA...BRUNO

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 4133 9732 4116 9726 4122 9686 4144 9694

$$

DEE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 7:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXOtoe113 min
Jun 12, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXNemaha, Richardson45 min
Jun 12, 7:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXJefferson113 min
Jun 12, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXRichardson12 min
Jun 13, 3:59 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXButler46 min
Jun 13, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSaunders63 min
Jun 13, 4:31 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXSaunders29 min
Jun 13, 4:39 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXLancaster51 min
Jun 13, 4:49 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXSaunders4 hr
Jun 13, 4:54 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXLancaster4 hr
Jun 13, 5:09 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXCass51 min
Jun 13, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXLancaster44 min
Jun 13, 5:32 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXOtoe58 min
Jun 13, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCass15 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.