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Wind Advisory 11, NWS Omaha, NE

May 24, 200615 counties in Nebraska; Harrison County, Monona County, Shelby County, Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this wind advisory at May 24, 2006, 9:05 AM CDT for 15 counties in Nebraska; Harrison County, Monona County, Shelby County, Iowa. It took effect at May 24, 2006, 11:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2006, 9:05 AM CDT (14:05 UTC)
In effect from: May 24, 2006, 11:00 AM CDT
Expired: May 24, 2006, 6:08 PM CDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE

Counties Harrison County, IA, Monona County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Antelope County, NE, Boone County, NE, Burt County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Knox County, NE, Madison County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Washington County, NE, Wayne County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 346 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: 1061 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 965 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 335 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 324 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.8

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at May 24, 3:38 AM CDT, 5 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 3:38 AM CDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 7:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pierce	36 min
May 23, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cedar, Knox	29 min
May 23, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Platte	42 min
May 23, 8:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Colfax, Platte, Stanton	44 min
May 23, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler	40 min
May 23, 8:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cuming	38 min
May 23, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Dodge	37 min
May 23, 8:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler, Seward	52 min
May 23, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Cuming, Thurston	42 min
May 23, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saunders	54 min
May 23, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saline	40 min
May 23, 9:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Seward	23 min
May 23, 9:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Lancaster	54 min
May 23, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Jefferson	33 min
May 23, 10:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass	65 min
May 23, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Saunders	26 min
May 23, 10:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage	33 min
May 23, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Sarpy	44 min
May 23, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Lancaster	33 min
May 23, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Otoe	62 min
May 23, 10:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Johnson	58 min
May 23, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage	29 min
May 23, 11:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Otoe	23 min
May 24, 12:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Otoe	42 min
May 23, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Monona	48 min
May 23, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Mills	67 min
May 23, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont	67 min
May 23, 11:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	33 min
May 23, 11:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Montgomery	42 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.