Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Sioux Falls, SD
NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this tornado warning at Jul 3, 2007, 8:28 PM CDT for Dixon County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 min. 2 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
- Jul 3, 2007, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2007, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Sioux Falls, SD
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Dixon County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 8:31 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 3 N Dixon, NE | FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAYS 116 AND 20 MOVING SOUTH |
| Jul 3, 8:35 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Allen, NE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 129 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1974 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KFSD 040129 TORFSD NEC051-040215- /O.NEW.KFSD.TO.W.0039.070704T0128Z-070704T0215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 828 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SIOUX FALLS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN DIXON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 828 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ALLEN...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PONCA...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RURAL DIXON COUNTY THROUGH 840 PM CDT THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR NORTHWEST IOWA. LAT...LON 4254 9673 4251 9701 4227 9700 4229 9673 $$ RSR
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KFSD 040139 SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 837 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2007 NEC051-040215- /O.CON.KFSD.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-070704T0215Z/ DIXON NE- 837 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN DIXON COUNTY... AT 837 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES EAST OF CONCORD...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PONCA...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... DIXON AND CONCORD THROUGH 850 PM CDT RURAL DIXON COUNTY THROUGH 900 PM CDT AT 831 PM CDT...FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE REPORTED HALFWAY TO THE GROUND NEAR HIGHWAYS 20 AND 116...MOVING SOUTH. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW. LAT...LON 4254 9673 4251 9701 4227 9700 4229 9673 $$ RSR
000 WWUS53 KFSD 040154 SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 851 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2007 NEC051-040215- /O.CON.KFSD.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-070704T0215Z/ DIXON NE- 851 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN DIXON COUNTY... AT 851 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF ALLEN...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTH OF PONCA...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE BETWEEN WAKEFIELD AND EMERSON THROUGH 905 PM CDT. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW. LAT...LON 4254 9673 4251 9701 4227 9700 4229 9673 $$ RSR
000 WWUS53 KFSD 040214 SVSFSD SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 914 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2007 NEC051-040224- /O.EXP.KFSD.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-070704T0215Z/ DIXON NE- 914 PM CDT TUE JUL 3 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN DIXON COUNTY EXPIRES AT 915 PM CDT... THE STORM HAS EXITED THE COUNTY. LAT...LON 4254 9673 4251 9701 4227 9700 4229 9673 $$ RSR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Dakota, Dixon | 41 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.