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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Omaha, NE

July 8, 2007Cuming County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2007, 11:00 PM CDT for Cuming County, Nebraska. It was in force for 45 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 8, 2007, 11:00 PM CDT (04:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 2007, 11:45 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cuming County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 329 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2007-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2099 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2007-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -46 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
2099 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2123 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
10 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 8, 10:41 PM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 10:41 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 5:20 PM CDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
520 PM CDT SUN JUL 8 2007

IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-
042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-091230-
MONONA-HARRISON-SHELBY-POTTAWATTAMIE-MILLS-MONTGOMERY-FREMONT-
PAGE-KNOX-CEDAR-THURSTON-ANTELOPE-PIERCE-WAYNE-BOONE-MADISON-
STANTON-CUMING-BURT-PLATTE-COLFAX-DODGE-WASHINGTON-BUTLER-
SAUNDERS-DOUGLAS-SARPY-SEWARD-LANCASTER-CASS-OTOE-SALINE-
JEFFERSON-GAGE-JOHNSON-NEMAHA-PAWNEE-RICHARDSON-
520 PM CDT SUN JUL 8 2007

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND MONDAY

SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING OVER NORTHEAST
NEBRASKA WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY SEVERE
WEATHER THREATS.

SURFACE LOW PRESSURE WITH A PRE-FRONTAL TROUGH WAS LOCATED OVER
NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. DEEP MOISTURE CONVERGENCE IS TAKING PLACE AND
STORMS ARE TRYING TO FORM...HOWEVER...ARE BEING HINDERED BY VERY
WARM AIR ALOFT. A LITTLE BETTER FOCUS REMAINS JUST TO THE NORTH IN
SOUTH DAKOTA AND MINNESOTA...WHERE THE PRIMARY COLD FRONT IS LOCATED.

THIS EVENING...STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO TRY TO FORM AND ONCE THEY
MANAGE TO BREACH THE CAP...COULD RAPIDLY BECOME SEVERE DUE TO THE
EXTREME INSTABILITY PRESENT AND IN AN AREA WITH SUFFICIENT SHEAR.

SCATTERED STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT AND
MONDAY ACROSS THE REST OF EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA AS
THE SURFACE FRONT SAGS TO THE SOUTH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY

THERE WILL BE A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH
TUESDAY NIGHT.

MONDAY NIGHT...THE STORMS WILL LINGER OVER SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND
SOUTHWEST IOWA. TUESDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...THE STORMS WILL BE
THE RESULT OF ANOTHER WEATHER DISTURBANCE THAT TRACKS ACROSS
SOUTHERN CANADA...NORTH DAKOTA...AND MINNESOTA...AND DRAGS A COLD
FRONT ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT...HOWEVER SHOULD NOT BE
NEEDED MONDAY.

ZAPOTOCNY

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXBoone42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.