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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 360, NWS Omaha, NE

September 13, 2005Gage County, Johnson County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 13, 2005, 11:40 AM CDT for Gage County, Johnson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 36 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
Sep 13, 2005, 11:40 AM CDT (16:40 UTC)
Expired
Sep 13, 2005, 12:16 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Gage County, NE, Johnson County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Sep 13, 10:40 AM CDT, 1 hour earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 10:40 AM CDT, 1 hour before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1040 AM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005

.DISCUSSION...

HAVE UPDATED ZONES TO CLEAN UP MORNING WORDING AND END PCPN THIS
AFTERNOON OVER THE NRN CWA. CAA WELL UNDERWAY ACROSS THE CWA THIS
MORNING. IT APPEARS THE FRONT IS ON THE VERGE OF PASSING THRU FALL
CITY THIS HOUR. STIFF NORTHWEST FLOW BEHIND THE FRONT...SO ALSO MADE
SOME WIND UPDATES. CLOUDS AND HIGH TEMPS TODAY WILL BE THE BIG
CONCERN. SATL PIX SHOWING NARROW WEDGE OF DRIER AIR MOVING IN FROM
THE SOUTHWEST...SO IT APPEARS THERE WILL BE A BATTLE BETWEEN STOUT
CAA AND AREAS OF INSOLATION. LATEST LAMP METEOGRAMS SUGGEST SLIGHTLY
COOLER TEMPS...EXCEPT FNB WHERE LOWER 80S DEPICTED. GIVEN AMOUNT OF
CLOUD COVER....HAVE DECIDED TO TRIM HIGHS SLIGHTLY OVER THE CWA.

DEE

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION...
313 AM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005

LATEST WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROF NOW
MOVING INTO THE WRN DAKOTAS WHILE MAIN TROF AXIS REMAINS OVER THE
WESTERN CONUS. COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO MAKE STEADY PROGRESS THRU THE
CWA THIS MORNING. BANDS OF BROKEN STRATOCU HAVE FORMED BEHIND THE
BOUNDARY WHICH SHOULD SCOUR OUT LATER THIS MORNING LEAVING PARTLY
CLOUDY SKIES FOR THE DAY. SCATTERED TSTMS ARE LINED UP FROM NORTH
CENTRAL NEB BACK TOWARDS THE PANHANDLE WHICH MATCHES UP FAIRLY WELL
WITH THE 700MB FRONTOGENESIS FIELD.

FORCING LOOKS RATHER MEAGER WITH THE SFC BOUNDARY...SO AM DOUBTFUL
IF MUCH PCPN WL OCCUR ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING IN
ASSOCIATION WITH THIS FEATURE. AS FOR THE MID LEVEL
BOUNDARY...FRONTOGENETIC FORCING IS FORECAST TO WEAKEN WITH TIME AS
IT SHIFTS EAST SO THINK THAT TSTMS ONGOING TO OUR WEST SHOULD FALL
APART LATER THIS MORNING. WL NEED TO CARRY SMALL POPS AS SOME OF
THIS COULD MAINTAIN ITSELF ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA.

OTHERWISE...SFC HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN AND MUCH DRIER AND COOLER
AIR WILL BE THE MAIN STORY TODAY. YESTERDAYS UPSTREAM HIGHS WERE
IN THE 70S WHICH IS IN LINE WITH GIVEN GUIDANCE VALUES. THE
EXCEPTION IS IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA WHERE TEMPS MAY WARM TO
AROUND 80 BEFORE FROPA. INSTABILITY WILL INCREASE ACROSS EXTREME
SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND IN AREAS TO OUR SOUTH AHEAD OF THE FRONT. A
FEW CELLS MAY POP UP EARLY THIS AFTERNOON IN OUR FAR SOUTHEAST
COUNTIES SO WL CARRY A SMALL POP THIS AFTERNOON TO COVER THAT AREA.

COOLER AND DRY WEATHER IS EXPECTED THROUGH THURSDAY WITH HIGHS IN
THE MID TO UPPER 70S WITH REGION IN ZONAL FLOW. SLIGHT UPPER RIDGING
BUILDS IN ON FRIDAY GIVING THE AREA SOUTHERLY FLOW AND TEMPS WL
BOOST INTO THE LOWER 80S WITH DRY WX CONTINUING. OF NOTE...THE 00Z
NAM INDICATES A BOUNDARY MOVING INTO NERN NEB THURSDAY NIGHT AND
DEVELOPS PCPN ALONG THIS. WITH GFS SHOWING NO SUCH THING...WL CONT
WITH CONSISTENCY AND GO DRY.

NEXT SERIES OF SHORTWAVES ARE SLATED TO EJECT OUT INTO THE CENTRAL
PLAINS FOR THE WEEKEND AS UPPER TROF DEEPENS OVER THE WESTERN CONUS
AND UPPER FLOW BECOMES MORE SWRLY. APPEARS THAT BEST CHANCE FOR
TSTMS WILL BE SATURDAY AND GOING FORECAST HAS ALL THIS COVERED SO NO
MAJOR CHANGES ARE PLANNED.

&&

.OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NE...NONE.
IA...NONE.

&&

GRIFFIS
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 13, 5:36 AM CDT, 6 hours 4 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 12, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXAntelope, Knox39 min
Sep 12, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXAntelope34 min
Sep 12, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXPierce34 min
Sep 12, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXAntelope32 min
Sep 12, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCedar, Knox36 min
Sep 13, 11:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXOtoe26 min
Sep 13, 11:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXSarpy25 min
Sep 13, 11:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMontgomery, Pottawattamie28 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.