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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Omaha, NE

March 30, 2006Gage County, Jefferson County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 30, 2006, 12:04 PM CST for Gage County, Jefferson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 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: Mar 30, 2006, 12:04 PM CST (18:04 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2006, 12:30 PM CST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:07 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 30, 8:42 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 131 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: 34 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -342 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 611 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 322 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 310 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 Mar 30, 2:45 AM CST, 9 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 2:45 AM CST, 9 hours 19 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
245 AM CST THU MAR 30 2006

.DISCUSSION...
SURFACE ANALYSIS AT 07Z SHOWED PRIMARY LOW OVER NORTHWEST SOUTH
DAKOTA WITH TROF/DRYLINE THROUGH WESTERN NEBRASKA AND EXTREME
WESTERN KANSAS. SOME SHOWERS HAVE STARTED TO POP UP OVER SOUTHEAST
NEBRASKA AT 08Z. TEMPERATURES HAVENT DROPPED OFF MUCH THIS MORNING
WITH STRONG SOUTH WINDS ACROSS THE AREA SO WILL BE STARTING OFF ON
THE WARM SIDE WITH GUSTY SOUTH WINDS CONTINUING THROUGH THE MORNING.
SOME SPOTS MAY BRUSH WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA AT TIMES THIS MORNING
BUT WITH 850MB WIND AXIS SHIFTING EAST AND DROPPING OFF A BIT
THROUGH 18Z WILL HOLD OFF ON ANY WIND HEADLINES AT THIS TIME. MAIN
CONCERN TODAY WILL BE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL WITH SPC PLACING
SOUTHEAST CORNER OF NEBRASKA AND FAR SOUTHWEST IOWA UNDER A MODERATE
RISK AND SLIGHT RISK ELSEWHERE. HAVE BACKED OFF SOME ON POPS THIS MORNING
WITH 06Z MODELS WAITING UNTIL AFTER 15Z BEFORE BRINGING MUCH MID
LEVEL INSTABILITY INTO THE AREA. AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY EVENING
STILL EXPECTED TO BE MAIN PERIOD FOR SEVERE POTENTIAL AND HAVE
CONTINUED WITH LIKELY POPS ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA. LITTLE CHANGE TO
REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST AS PATTERN REMAINS PROGRESSIVE AND ACTIVE
THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD.

&&

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

FOBERT

Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 30, 10:29 AM CST, 1 hour 35 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1029 AM CST THU MAR 30 2006

IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-
042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-310000-
ANTELOPE-BOONE-BURT-BUTLER-CASS-CEDAR-COLFAX-CUMING-DODGE-DOUGLAS-
FREMONT IA-GAGE-HARRISON IA-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-KNOX-LANCASTER-MADISON-
MILLS IA-MONONA IA-MONTGOMERY IA-NEMAHA-OTOE-PAGE IA-PAWNEE-PIERCE-
PLATTE-POTTAWATTAMIE IA-RICHARDSON-SALINE-SARPY-SAUNDERS-SEWARD-
SHELBY IA-STANTON-THURSTON-WASHINGTON-WAYNE-
1029 AM CST THU MAR 30 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST
IOWA...WEST CENTRAL IOWA...EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA...NORTHEAST
NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING
OVER PARTS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA.  ALL OF THESE
STORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS.  THUNDERSTORMS THAT ARE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80 WILL HAVE THE
HIGHEST POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES...AND THESE STORMS ARE
MORE LIKELY DURING THE EARLY AND MID AFTERNOON HOURS.

THE STORMS WILL MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH AND SHOULD
HAVE FAIRLY LOW CLOUD BASES.  SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO
ACT QUICKLY.

THE SEVERE WEATHER IS THE RESULT OF INTENSE LOW PRESSURE
TRACKING FROM SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA INTO NORTHWEST IOWA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON SUNDAY FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST
NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. INTENSE LOW PRESSURE WILL TRACK FROM
SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA INTO SOUTHERN IOWA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS
EVENING. A CONFERENCE CALL WILL TAKE PLACE AT 11 AM CST.

NIETFELD

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 30, 10:44 AM CST, 1 hour 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
1044 AM CST THU MAR 30 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1040 AM     HAIL             7 W ALBION              41.69N 98.14W
03/30/2006  E1.00 INCH       BOONE              NE   CO-OP OBSERVER

&&

CZAPOTOC

Local storm report, Mar 30, 11:01 AM CST, 1 hour 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
1101 AM CST THU MAR 30 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1058 AM     HAIL             ALBION                  41.69N 98.00W
03/30/2006  E0.75 INCH       BOONE              NE   EMERGENCY MNGR

&&

CZAPOTOC

Local storm report, Mar 30, 11:08 AM CST, 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
1108 AM CST THU MAR 30 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1100 AM     HAIL             SCRIBNER                41.66N 96.66W
03/30/2006  E0.75 INCH       DODGE              NE   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

BG

Local storm report, Mar 30, 11:13 AM CST, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
1113 AM CST THU MAR 30 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1108 AM     HAIL             7 W FREMONT             41.44N 96.63W
03/30/2006  E0.88 INCH       DODGE              NE   PUBLIC

&&

CZAPOTOC

Special weather statement, Mar 30, 11:57 AM CST, 7 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1157 AM CST THU MAR 30 2006

IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-
042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-302000-
ANTELOPE-BOONE-BURT-BUTLER-CASS-CEDAR-COLFAX-CUMING-DODGE-DOUGLAS-
FREMONT IA-GAGE-HARRISON IA-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-KNOX-LANCASTER-MADISON-
MILLS IA-MONONA IA-MONTGOMERY IA-NEMAHA-OTOE-PAGE IA-PAWNEE-PIERCE-
PLATTE-POTTAWATTAMIE IA-RICHARDSON-SALINE-SARPY-SAUNDERS-SEWARD-
SHELBY IA-STANTON-THURSTON-WASHINGTON-WAYNE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALBION...AUBURN...BEATRICE...BELLEVUE...
BLAIR...BLOOMFIELD...CLARINDA...COLUMBUS...COUNCIL BLUFFS...CRETE...
DAVID CITY...FAIRBURY...FALLS CITY...FREMONT...GLENWOOD...HARLAN...
HARTINGTON...LINCOLN...LOGAN...NEBRASKA CITY...NELIGH...NORFOLK...
OMAHA...ONAWA...PAWNEE CITY...PENDER...PIERCE...PLATTSMOUTH...
RED OAK...SCHUYLER...SEWARD...SIDNEY...STANTON...TECUMSEH...
TEKAMAH...WAHOO...WAYNE...WEST POINT
1157 AM CST THU MAR 30 2006

...WARNING DECISION UPDATE FOR SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA...

17Z SUBJECTIVE SFC ANLYS NOW INDICATES SFC LO PRES NE OF HLC KS. SFC
DRY LINE EXTENDS SWD FM THE LOWS THROUGH KRSL TO KPTT. WE ARE
SEEING IN THE RUC/LAPS THETA-E ANALYSIS PROGS A WEAK BOUNDARY ACROSS
SE NEB FROM NR KOLU SEWD TO KLNK TO KFNB.

THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DVLP ALNG THE SFC DRY LINE FM S-CNTRL NEB
INTO CNTRL KS...AND MOVING TO THE NE ARND 40 KTS. ATMOSPHERE ACRS
OUR SW CWA IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE WITH LATEST RUC DATA
INDICATING ARND 1200 J/KG OF MLCAPE. CONVECTIVE INHIBITION VIRTUALLY
GONE AS SEEN IN THE LATEST SPC MESOANALYSIS GRAPHICS AND MODIFIED
RUC SOUNDINGS. THE LFC HAS ALSO DROPPED TO LESS THEN 1000 M PER
THESE MODIFIED SOUNDINGS. THUNDERSTORMS WHICH ARE DVLPNG OVR N-
CNTRL KS WL BE MOVING INTO THE THIS RICH ENVIRONMENT. EFFECTIVE
SHEAR OF 50 KTS AND EFFECTIVE HELICITY IS ARND 300 J/KG. THUS WE ARE
BECOMING INCREASINGLY CONCERNED WITH SFC BASED SUPERCELLS THROUGH 2
PM OVR OUR SRN FA NR THE WK SFC BOUNDARY/DISCONTINUITY. OTHERWISE...
LINEAR CONVECTION CONTINUES TO LINE UP FM OUR NW CWA INTO S-CNTRL
NEB AND THIS IS LIKELY TO SWEEP INTO OUR CWA WITH A WIND THREAT THRU
THE AFTN...BUT OUR INITIAL CONCERN WITH BE SUPERCELLS AHEAD OF THE
LINE.

BOUSTEAD

Local storm report, Mar 30, 11:59 AM CST, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
1159 AM CST THU MAR 30 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1120 AM     HAIL             4 SW TILDEN             42.00N 97.89W
03/30/2006  E0.88 INCH       ANTELOPE           NE   PUBLIC

1140 AM     HAIL             3 NE TILDEN             42.07N 97.79W
03/30/2006  E0.75 INCH       MADISON            NE   PUBLIC

&&

CZAPOTOC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 5:18 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Lancaster, Saunders	27 min
Mar 30, 6:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Jefferson, Saline	34 min
Mar 30, 7:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Douglas	28 min
Mar 30, 8:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Lancaster, Seward	29 min
Mar 30, 8:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saunders	24 min
Mar 30, 10:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Boone	46 min
Mar 30, 10:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Dodge	28 min
Mar 30, 11:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Madison	33 min
Mar 30, 11:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pierce	52 min
Mar 30, 11:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Knox	39 min
Mar 30, 11:40 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Wayne	37 min
Mar 30, 11:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Madison	33 min
Mar 30, 11:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Boone	51 min
Mar 30, 12:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cedar	48 min
Mar 30, 12:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pierce	46 min
Mar 30, 12:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Lancaster, Saline	37 min
Mar 30, 12:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope	46 min
Mar 30, 12:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Jefferson	31 min
Mar 30, 12:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Dodge	39 min
Mar 30, 12:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Boone	46 min
Mar 30, 12:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Lancaster	47 min
Mar 30, 1:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cedar	45 min
Mar 30, 1:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pierce	39 min
Mar 30, 1:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Johnson, Pawnee	29 min
Mar 30, 1:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Madison	23 min
Mar 30, 1:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Boone	45 min
Mar 30, 1:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saunders	44 min
Mar 30, 1:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Platte	41 min
Mar 30, 1:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Lancaster	16 min
Mar 30, 1:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Pierce	47 min
Mar 30, 1:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cedar	45 min
Mar 30, 1:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Platte	43 min
Mar 30, 1:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass, Otoe	25 min
Mar 30, 1:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Madison	38 min
Mar 30, 1:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Douglas, Washington	23 min
Mar 30, 2:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Platte	42 min
Mar 30, 2:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Jefferson	34 min
Mar 30, 2:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Pierce	31 min
Mar 30, 2:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Douglas, Sarpy	17 min
Mar 30, 2:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Lancaster, Seward	29 min
Mar 30, 2:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cedar, Wayne	58 min
Mar 30, 2:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler	42 min
Mar 30, 2:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Colfax	41 min
Mar 30, 2:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Stanton	27 min
Mar 30, 2:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage	31 min
Mar 30, 2:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cuming	51 min
Mar 30, 2:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Johnson	34 min
Mar 30, 3:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Lancaster	25 min
Mar 30, 3:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Thurston	34 min
Mar 30, 3:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Dodge, Saunders	33 min
Mar 30, 3:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pawnee	27 min
Mar 30, 3:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass, Otoe	41 min
Mar 30, 3:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt	38 min
Mar 30, 3:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Washington	33 min
Mar 30, 3:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Douglas, Saunders	30 min
Mar 30, 3:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Sarpy	29 min
Mar 30, 3:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Douglas, Sarpy	23 min
Mar 30, 3:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Washington	16 min
Mar 30, 3:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison	18 min
Mar 30, 3:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison, Monona	60 min
Mar 30, 4:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Mills	37 min
Mar 30, 4:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	25 min
Mar 30, 4:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Harrison	37 min
Mar 30, 4:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Monona	37 min
Mar 30, 4:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Montgomery, Page	49 min
Mar 30, 4:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	31 min
Mar 30, 4:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Shelby	20 min
Mar 30, 4:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	OAX	Montgomery	17 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.