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Tornado Warning 72, NWS Omaha, NE

June 13, 2004Lancaster County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2004, 4:39 PM CDT for Lancaster County, Nebraska. It was in force for 51 min. 9 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, 4:39 PM CDT (21:39 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2004, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lancaster County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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 13, 4:55 PM CDT	HAIL 1	Ceresco, NE
Jun 13, 5:02 PM CDT	HAIL 1.5	Davey, NE
Jun 13, 5:08 PM CDT	TORNADO	2 Nne Waverly, NE	TWO NORTH NORTHEAST OF WAVERLY ON THE GROUND, AND THEN UP INTO THE CLOUDS.
Jun 13, 5:09 PM CDT	TORNADO	2 W Raymond, NE	POWER LINES DOWN EAST OF 70TH STREET AND RAYMOND ROAD INTERSECTIONS. TREES DOWN ALSO AT SAME LOCATION.
Jun 13, 5:14 PM CDT	TORNADO	4 Sw Waverly, NE
Jun 13, 5:17 PM CDT	TORNADO	3 Sw Greenwood, NE	RAIN WRAPPED TORNADO ON THE GROUND.
Jun 13, 5:23 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Waverly, NE
Jun 13, 5:25 PM CDT	TORNADO	1 E Waverly, NE	TORNADO ON THE GROUND ALONG BLUFF RD SW OF WAVERLY ABOUT 4 MILES.
Jun 13, 5:25 PM CDT	TORNADO	4 Sw Waverly, NE	3 SEPERATE TORNADO TOUCH DOWNS BETWEN 112TH AND 98TH STREETS, BETWEEN ALVO RD AND BLUFF RD.4SW OF WAVERLY TO 3 SW OF WAVERLY.

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 13, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 45 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: 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.

832 
WFUS53 KOAX 132139
TOROAX
NEC109-132230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LANCASTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 434 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WITH A POSSIBLE
  TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES
  NORTH OF RAYMOND...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH OF LINCOLN...MOVING   
  SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.  THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE THE CITY OF LINCOLN AT 
  THIS TIME.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RAYMOND
  DAVEY
  WAVERLY

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 80 IN NEBRASKA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 403 AND
409.

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 4108 9680 4098 9692 4078 9648 4104 9646

$$

MILLER/CZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 7:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Otoe	113 min
Jun 12, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Nemaha, Richardson	45 min
Jun 12, 7:22 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Jefferson	113 min
Jun 12, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Richardson	12 min
Jun 13, 3:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Butler	28 min
Jun 13, 3:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Butler	46 min
Jun 13, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saunders	63 min
Jun 13, 4:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Saunders	29 min
Jun 13, 4:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Saunders	4 hr
Jun 13, 4:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Lancaster	4 hr
Jun 13, 5:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Cass	51 min
Jun 13, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Lancaster	44 min
Jun 13, 5:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Otoe	58 min
Jun 13, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass	15 min

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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.