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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 328, NWS Omaha, NE

August 28, 2007Douglas County, Saunders County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2007, 5:19 PM CDT for Douglas County, Saunders County, Nebraska. It was in force for 41 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 28, 2007, 5:19 PM CDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 2007, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Douglas County, NE, Saunders County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 7 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2007-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 438 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, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2007-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 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
438 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-240 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1545 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
92 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 Aug 28, 3:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 3:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
304 PM CDT TUE AUG 28 2007

.SHORT TERM...TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. MAIN WEATHER CONCERN AND
CHALLENGE NEXT 7 DAYS CONTINUES TO BE CONVECTION COVERAGE/PCPN
AMOUNTS IN THE SHORT TERM. SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT AT 19Z EXTENDED
NEAR A SUX-GRI LINE. ALOFT SEVERAL EMBEDDED SHORTWV TROFS WERE
INDICATED BY WATER VAPOR IMAGERY...ONE WAS MOVING INTO NERN
NEBRASKA AND SECOND WAS MOVG ACROSS FAR SWRN NEBR/WRN KS. 18Z
OAX SOUNDING SHOWED A MOISTENING AOB 850 MB BUT A BIT OF AN
INCREASED CAP ABOVE 700 MB WITH WEAKENING ML CIN. BUFKIT FM 12Z
NAM SHOWED OMA/LNK LOSING LOW LVL CIN AROUND 22Z...MAYBE AN HR OR
TWO LATER THAN IT SHOWED YDA. GFS REMAINED CONSISTENT WITH CIN
BASICALLY GONE BY 21Z AND 4KM WRF BLOWS UP A BKN CONVECTIVE LINE
NEAR AND JUST NW OF SFC FRONT BETWEEN 20-21Z. SO WITH WEAKENING
CIN AND INCREASED CU FIELD AHEAD OF FRONT...FEEL SECOND WAVE
SHOULD AID IN COOLING THE LAYER ABOVE 700 MB AND PROVIDE ENOUGH
FORCING TO GO ALONG WITH FRONTAL CONVERGENCE TO GO CATEGORICAL
WITH POPS THE FIRST 6 HRS TNGT OVER A LARGE PART OF THE CWA.

PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES STILL FORECAST TO EXCEED 2 INCHES THIS
EVENING VCNTY OF FRONT...AND ABOVE MENTIONED WAVES DO HAVE A
TROPICAL CONNECTION. ALSO VECTOR MOVEMENT REALLY DECREASES THIS
EVENING SO WL ALSO CONTINUE HEAVY RAIN MENTION AND WILL FORECAST A
LARGE AREAL COVERAGE OF 1-1.5 INCHES RAINFALL TNGT. SOME HEAVIER
AMOUNTS ARE QUITE POSSIBLE BUT WITH SEVERAL DRY...BREEZY AND WARM
DAYS FEEL MOST BASINS CAN HOLD MORE THAN THE AROUND 2 INCH FFG
VALUES POSTED. THUS FELT ENOUGH CUSHION EXISTS TO REFRAIN FROM
FLASH FLOOD WATCH ALTHOUGH ISOLD FLOODING POSSIBLE. EXPECT
CONVECTION TO SPLIT FOCUS AREAS ACROSS 2 AREAS LATER TNGT...ONE
EAST OF THE CWA AS WAVE MOVES INTO IA AND OTHER TO OUR SW TOWARD
THE THEN BETTER INSTABILITY...ALTHOUGH IT WILL BE MOVING INTO
WARMER 700 MB TEMPS AND COULD WEAKEN. SO STARTED TRIMMING BACK
POPS NRN ZONES AFT 06Z AND ALSO BEGAN CUTTING BACK ON QPF.
LINGERING PCPN STILL POSSIBLE SRN ZONES WED MORNING...AND KEPT
SMALL CHCS FAR SE IN THE AFTN. MADE LTL CHANGES TO TEMPS...RANGING
FROM MID 70S N TO AROUND 80 S.

.LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY. STILL DECENT
AGREEMENT BETWEEN GFS ENSEMBLE MEAN AND ECMWF IN BUILDING UPPER
RIDGE NW/NEWD INTO NRN RCKYS WRN HIGH PLAINS THROUGH THE END OF
THE WEEK AND THEN FLATTENING IT SLIGHTLY AND SHIFTING IT EWD.
STILL LITTLE APPARENT REASON TO MENTION ANY PCPN IN THIS PD.
RELATIVELY MILD WEATHER IN THE THU-FRI TIME FRAME COURTESY
PRESSURE OVER THE GRTLKS NOSING INTO MID MO VALLEY. TEMPS SHOULD
WARM THEN THROUGH THE LABOR DAY WEEKEND INTO TUESDAY AS FLOW
BECOMES MORE SRLY AND ANY BACKDOOR CDFNT APPEARS IT WILL STAY N/NE
OF THE FCST AREA. AFTER MAX TEMPS IN LOW/MID 80S THU/FRI WARMED
READINGS INTO MID/UPPER 80S SAT AND THEN MORE OF A PERSISTENCE
BASED UPPER 80S TO AROUND 90 SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. 850 MB TEMPS
AROUND 20 MOVE TOWARD MO RIVER IN THIS TIME PERIOD PER LATEST GFS
ENSEMBLE MEAN AND ECMWF...WITH MEX SEEMINGLY INFLUENCED TOO MUCH
BY CLIMO.

&&

.AVIATION...

COLD FRONT FM AROUND SUX-OLU-GRI AT 1930Z SHOULD PUSH THROUGH AREA
TNGT...WITH WINDS FCST TO SHIFT TO N AT OMA AND LNK AROUND 01Z BUT
POSSIBLY NOT REACHING SERN CORNER OF NEBRASKA TIL 09Z-12Z. EXPECT
CONVECTION TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE THROUGH EARLY EVENING WITH
TSTMS MENTION IN OFK TAF TIL 02Z AND OMA AND LNK THRU 08Z. COULD
BE BRIEF IFR CONDS IN TSTMS DUE TO HEAVY RAIN. LOW CLOUDS AND SOME
LIGHT VSBY RESTRICTIONS EXPECTED BY WED MORNING BHND FRONT.

&&

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

CHERMOK/FOBERT
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 28, 4:46 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
446 PM CDT TUE AUG 28 2007

IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-
042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-290500-
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-
446 PM CDT TUE AUG 28 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NEBRASKA AND
SOUTHWEST IOWA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF
THE OUTLOOK AREA...GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM
COLUMBUS TO MAPLETON IOWA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS ARE
THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. HOWEVER...AN ISOLATED TORNADO CANNOT BE RULED
OUT.

A COLD FRONT PUSHING THROUGH THE OUTLOOK AREA WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR
THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THIS EVENING. STRONG INSTABILITY AND DEEP
LAYER SHEAR DURING THIS TIME WILL ENHANCE THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH IN INTENSITY TOWARD MIDNIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING OVER EAST
CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA...AS WELL AS SOUTHWEST IOWA.

DEE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 28, 5:00 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 28, 5:15 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
515 PM CDT TUE AUG 28 2007

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

0440 PM     TSTM WND GST     1 NE NORTH BEND         41.48N 96.77W
08/28/2007  E65 MPH          DODGE              NE   PUBLIC

            LARGE LIMBS DOWN.

&&

CHERMOK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXColfax36 min
Aug 28, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXColfax, Dodge, Saunders47 min
Aug 28, 4:44 PM CDTTornado WarningOAXBurt, Cuming, Dodge46 min
Aug 28, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXWashington32 min
Aug 28, 5:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXDouglas, Saunders33 min
Aug 28, 5:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXHarrison, Monona43 min
Aug 28, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXHarrison, Pottawattamie, Shelby65 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.