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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2007, 7:47 PM CDT for Richardson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 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
- Aug 8, 2007, 7:47 PM CDT (00:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2007, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Richardson County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 4:43 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 2462 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1867 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.4
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 Aug 8, 3:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 3:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 316 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2007 .DISCUSSION... OR .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. STLT SHOWED MCS/MCV MOVING ACROSS THE ERN CWA AT 20Z...POSITION OF WHICH IS NOT UNLIKE MONDAY AFTN. ATMOSPHERE HAD STABILIZED A BIT IN ITS WAKE WITH SWRN EXTENT OF THE REMAINING CONVECTION OVER NERN 1/4 OR SO OF THE CWA. VERY UNSTABLE AIR WAS LOCATED S OF NWD ADVANCING SURFACE WARM FRONT WITH THE BOUNDARY APPROACHING SERN NEBR AS OF 20Z. MLCAPES THERE WERE IN EXCESS OF 4000 J/KG WITH CIN DECREASING. DECENT 850 MB MOISTURE TRANSPORT PER RUC INTO FAR SERN NEBR/SWRN IA THRU 03Z SO WOULD EXPECT A RENEWED INCREASE IN CONVECTION SRN ZONES THRU EARLY EVENING. THERE IS SOME SEVERE THREAT WITH LOW LCLS...MODERATE LOW LVL HELICITY AND MODEST 0-6KM BULK SHEAR...SPCLY IF BNDRY CAN ADVANCE INTO THE CWA AND CONVECTION CAN BECOME SFC BASED. SINCE PD OF LOW LVL THETA E ADVCTN IS LIMITED CONVECTION MAY QUICKLY SHIFT OUT OF THE CWA SO HELD OFF ON A FLASH FLOOD WATCH. OTHER CONVECTION COULD CONTINUE DVLPG ON SWRN FLANK OF DEPARTING MCS AS A SECONDARY AREA OF UNSTABLE AIR WAS LOCATED ALONG THE NRN CWA SECTIONS OF THE MO RIVER AREA. AS NRN PLAINS WAVE...CURRENTLY TRACKING ACRS WRN ND...ALSO DEPARTS...APPEARS TSTM CHCS DECREASE OR END OVR THE CWA AFT 06Z. WEAK NWRLY FLOW COULD PRECLUDE FOG/ST DVLPMENT LATER...BUT MODELS HAVE BEEN OVERDOING THE LOW LVL DRYING LATELY SO LEFT MENTION IN. WITH WEAK FLOW AND WET GROUND ON THURSDAY WENT MORE WITH PREV FORECAST WITH HIGHS WHICH WERE BELOW MAV. .LONG TERM...THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY. UPPER RIDGE STILL FORECAST TO BUILD NWWD ACROSS THE SRN PLAINS AND SRN SECTIONS OF THE CNTRL PLAINS THROUGH THIS TIME PERIOD. SO IT LOOKS LIKE MAX TEMPS COULD MAKE A RUN AT 100 SOME LOCALS BY THE WEEKEND AND POSSIBLY EVEN NEXT WEEK. HEAT ADVISORIES MAY BE NEEDED BY THIS WEEKEND BUT ATTM HANDLED BEST IN THE HWO. ALSO WITH BUILDING HEIGHTS POSSIBLY KEEPING MOST OF ANY SHORTWV ENERGY TO OUR N...TSTM CHCS SHOULD BE DECREASING. HOWEVER...SMALL...NOCTURNAL CHANCES DO EXIST THU NGT AND FRI NGT...MAINLY NRN ZONES AS LOW LVL JET COULD KEEP ANY ACTIVITY THAT DVLPS TO OUR N THRU W GOING OVERNIGHT. ANOTHER SMALL CHANCE EXISTS SAT NGT AS WEAK FRONT DROPS SEWD INTO NERN ZONES UNDERNEATH UPPER RIDGE PER 12Z GFS/NAM AND ECMWF. ATTM LEFT PCPN OUT OF FORECAST THU AND FRI NGTS BUT DID INCLUDE A SLGT CHC SAT NGT WITH FRONT. HIGHS COULD BE A BIT COOLER NERN ZONES SUN AND MON AS A BIT MORE ERLY COMPONENT TO THE WIND DVLPS...BUT HOT TEMPERATURES LIKELY TO RETURN EVEN THERE BY TUE/WED. && .AVIATION... 18Z/07-18Z/08...MANY UNCERTAINTIES FOR THIS FCST. BATCH OF PCPN SHOULD BE OUT OF THE TAF SITES BY 22Z...BUT SWD MOVING BNDRY SUGGESTS ADDITIONAL SCT CONVECTION DEVELOPING AFTER 23Z NEAR NEB/KS BORDER. HOWEVER...DECIDED TO LEAVE OUT OF TAFS AS LATEST GUID PLACES BEST CHANCES FM SRN IA TO NERN KS. HOWEVER...CLEARING SKIES...LIGHT WINDS AND MOIST BNDRY LYR AFTER 06Z ENHANCE CHANCE FOR IFR COND OR LESS MAINLY OMA/OFK SITES BETWEEN 10Z-14Z. OVERALL CONFIDNCE NOT ADDING TS IN TAFS MOD...WHILE HIGH FOR FLIGHT CAT RESTRICTIONS. && .OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. IA...NONE. && CHERMOK/DEE
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 4:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTION TO GROUPS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 458 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2007 IAZ069-079-080-090-091-NEZ050>053-065>068-078-088>093-091000- BUTLER-CASS-DOUGLAS-FREMONT IA-GAGE-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LANCASTER- MILLS IA-MONTGOMERY IA-NEMAHA-OTOE-PAGE IA-PAWNEE-POTTAWATTAMIE IA- RICHARDSON-SALINE-SARPY-SAUNDERS-SEWARD- 458 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND THURSDAY THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING OVER SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA...MAINLY SOUTH OF A SEWARD TO OMAHA TO AVOCA IOWA LINE. SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS POSSIBLE NEAR THE KANSAS BORDER. HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO LIKELY AND MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY HOT AND HUMID WEATHER WILL PREVAIL OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA BEGINNING FRIDAY AS THE REGION ENTERS INTO A PROLONGED SUMMER HEAT WAVE. DURING THIS TIME...AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES MAY EXCEED 105 FOR SEVERAL DAYS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. IAZ043-055-056-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-042>045-091000- ANTELOPE-BOONE-BURT-CEDAR-COLFAX-CUMING-DODGE-HARRISON IA-KNOX- MADISON-MONONA IA-PIERCE-PLATTE-SHELBY IA-STANTON-THURSTON- WASHINGTON-WAYNE- 458 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND WEST CENTRAL IOWA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND THURSDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING OUT OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA EAST OF A WAYNE TO COLUMBUS LINE AND WEST CENTRAL IOWA EARLY THIS EVENING. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY HOT AND HUMID WEATHER WILL PREVAIL OVER THE OUTLOOK AREA BEGINNING FRIDAY AS THE REGION ENTERS INTO A PROLONGED SUMMER HEAT WAVE. DURING THIS TIME...AFTERNOON HEAT INDICES MAY EXCEED 105 FOR SEVERAL DAYS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TONIGHT OR THURSDAY. FOBERT
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 8, 5:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
558 PM CDT WED AUG 08 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0550 PM HAIL TECUMSEH 40.37N 96.19W
08/08/2007 E0.75 INCH JOHNSON NE TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
DEELocal storm report, Aug 8, 6:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
634 PM CDT WED AUG 08 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0620 PM TSTM WND GST 5 SW AUBURN 40.34N 95.91W
08/08/2007 E60 MPH NEMAHA NE STORM CHASER
&&
DEELocal storm report, Aug 8, 6:47 PM CDT, 1 hour before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
647 PM CDT WED AUG 08 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0636 PM TSTM WND GST PERU 40.48N 95.73W
08/08/2007 E70 MPH NEMAHA NE EMERGENCY MNGR
&&
DEELocal storm report, Aug 8, 6:48 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
648 PM CDT WED AUG 08 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0626 PM FUNNEL CLOUD AUBURN 40.39N 95.84W
08/08/2007 NEMAHA NE EMERGENCY MNGR
&&
DEELocal storm report, Aug 8, 7:36 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 7:10 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Richardson | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Richardson | 29 min |
| Aug 8, 10:53 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | OAX | Richardson | 8 hr |
| Aug 9, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Knox, Pierce | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Antelope, Knox, Pierce | 29 min |
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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.