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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 309, NWS Omaha, NE

July 28, 2005Antelope County, Knox County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2005, 10:16 PM CDT for Antelope County, Knox County, Nebraska. It was in force for 59 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
Jul 28, 2005, 10:16 PM CDT (03:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 2005, 11:15 PM CDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Antelope County, NE, Knox County, NE

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:17 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 180 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 2005-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 735 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 2005-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 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
735 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1854 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 28, 7:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 7:25 PM CDT, 2 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
725 PM CDT THU JUL 28 2005

.DISCUSSION...
DID AN EARLY EVENING UPDATE TO ADJUST THE LOCATION AND TIMING OF
POPS AND CLOUDS JUST A BIT. ALSO REARRANGED THE ZONE GROUPINGS
SLIGHTLY AND PULLED THE MENTION OF THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE PLATTE
RIVER THROUGH SAUNDERS...DOUGLAS AND SARPY COUNTIES SOUTHWARD.

IN LOOKS LIKE THE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL NEBRASKA ARE FIRING
ON THE COLD FRONT ITSELF...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST INTO A REGION WHERE
A STRONGER CAP EXISTS. IT APPEARS THAT THUNDERSTORMS COULD CLIP A
COUPLE OF COUNTIES YET THIS EVENING...MAINLY BOONE AND PLATTE.
STORMS TO OUR WEST HAVE REMAINED QUITE STRONG THIS EVENING WITH
SMALL HAIL REPORTED. LOOKS LIKE IT COULD BE GUSTY UNDER THE STORMS
AS WELL WITH SOME 20 DEGREE DEWPOINT SPREADS AND DRIER AIR AS NOTED
ON KLBF SOUNDING. OTHERWISE...WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR STORMS ACROSS
THE REMAINDER OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND WEST CENTRAL IOWA UNTIL
AFTER MIDNIGHT...WITH THE SOURCE REGION COMING OUT OF WESTERN AND
CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA IF THEY DEVELOP THIS FAR SOUTH AT ALL.

DEWALD

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION...

351 PM CDT THU JUL 28 2005

FORECAST PROBLEMS TODAY INCLUDE CHANCES OF PRECIP FOR TONIGHT/EARLY
TOMORROW MORNING.

19Z SFC ANALYSIS SHOWED A TROUGH JUST CLIPPING THE NERN CORNER OF
NE...AND STRETCHING UP TO THE TWIN CITIES AREA.  WV IMAGERY SHOWED
THE RIDGE IN THE WRN US CONTINUING TO BUILD...WITH A WEAK SHORTWAVE
TROUGH PRODUCING SOME PRECIPITATION OVER CENTRAL IDAHO.  WE CONTINUE
IN NORTHWEST FLOW.  VISIBLE SATELLITE SHOWS A CU FIELD DEVELOPING
OVER NCNTRL NE.  WITH CAP IN PLACE OVER NERN NEBRASKA AM NOT
CURRENTLY CONCERNED ABOUT IT MOVING EAST INTO OUR CWA...BUT WILL
KEEP AN EYE ON IT.

PRECIP CHANCES TONIGHT WILL FOLLOW THE TROUGH AS IT MOVES EWD ACROSS
NERN NE AND INTO NW IA.  MOISTURE IS STILL PRETTY LACKING AS THE
GULF REMAINS CLOSED.  HOWEVER A LOOK AT BOTH THE NAM AND GFS 315K
ISOSURFACE SHOWS SOME SLIGHT ISENTROPIC LIFT BEGINNING AFTER
03Z...WITH CONDENSATION PRESSURE DEFICITS DECREASING AS WELL...AND
THIS CONTINUING TO AROUND 18Z FRIDAY.  THE LLVL JET IS EXPECTED TO
SHIFT EASTWARD INTO OUR CWA BY 18Z SO IT MAY HELP IN KEEPING THESE
SHOWERS LINGERING THRU THE MORNING UNTIL CUT OFF BY AN INCREASING
CAP.  THUS HAVE EXPANDED THE SLIGHT CHANCE POPS TO 03Z TO
18Z FRIDAY.

FROM TOMORROW ONWARD THE CHANCE FOR PRECIPITATION LOOKS MINIMAL.
WHILE THE LLVL JET WILL BE NOSING INTO THE AREA FRI THRU SAT
NIGHT...MOISTURE IS STILL QUITE LACKING SO LEFT DRY ATTM.  THE
MODELS CONTINUE WITH THE UPPER RIDGE BUILDING INTO THE CENTRAL
PLAINS THRU WEDNESDAY WITH VARIOUS SHRTWVS MOVING THRU...BUT UNTIL
TIMING CAN BE PINNED DOWN WILL LEAVE OUT MENTION OF PRECIP IN
AGREEMENT WITH CURRENT FORECAST.  HOWEVER DID COOL THINGS DOWN A
LITTLE TUESDAY THRU WEDNESDAY IN NERN NEBRASKA NORTH OF THE FRONT
EXPECTED TO HANG UP IN THE AREA.  OTHERWISE LEFT GOING FORECAST OF
TEMPS INCREASING THROUGH THE PD TO THE LOW TO MID 90S.

ADAMS

&&

.OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...

NE...NONE.
IA...NONE.

&&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 28, 7:43 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXAntelope, Knox, Pierce63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.