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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Omaha, NE

March 24, 2007Cass County, Sarpy County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 2007, 8:57 AM CDT for Cass County, Sarpy County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 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
Mar 24, 2007, 8:57 AM CDT (13:57 UTC)
Expired
Mar 24, 2007, 9:30 AM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cass County, NE, Sarpy County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:59 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 375 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 12:00Z on 2007-03-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2007-03-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1024 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 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 Mar 24, 4:35 AM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 4:35 AM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
435 AM CDT SAT MAR 24 2007

.DISCUSSION...

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ERUPTED NORTH OF THE WARM FRONT...WHICH EXISTED
JUST NORTH OF I80 AT 09Z. THE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF 1
HAIL...AND A FEW WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED. VERY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO
OCCURRING WITH THE STORMS. THE STORMS ARE MOVING THOUGH...AND THATS
A GOOD THING. WE DID ISSUE A FLOOD ADVISORY FOR DODGE COUNTY WHERE
TRAINING OF STORMS HAS OCCURRED. DECIDED TO NOT ISSUE A FLOOD WATCH
BECAUSE THE STORMS ARE MOVING...BUT WOULD EXPECT FROM ONE TO TWO
INCHES OF RAIN AN ANY STORM THIS MORNING ACROSS NORTHERN PORTIONS OF
THE CWFA. THIS INITIAL BAND OF HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD SHIFT
FURTHER NORTH THRU TIME THIS MORNING. MEANWHILE...ADDITIONAL
THUNDERSHOWERS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTHEAST KANSAS
WILL SHIFT INTO THE SOUTHERN CWFA AREA THIS MORNING AS WELL.

FOR THIS AFTERNOON...AM THINKING THE WARMFRONT WILL SHIFT A LITTLE
FURTHER NORTH AS A PSEUDO DRY SLOT BEGINS TO MOVE INTO THE AREA.
THUS...THERE SHOULD BE A DECREASING TREND FROM SOUTH TO NORTH OF THE
AREAL COVERAGE...AND THIS WILL ALLOW SOME DESTABILIZATION TO BEGIN.
FOCUS SHIFTS TO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND WHERE WELL SEE
RENEWED DEVELOPMENT. THE SFC LOW MOVES INTO SWRN NE AT THIS TIME
WHILE THE WARM FRONT IS EXPECTED TO ARC NORTHEAST FROM THE LOW
THROUGH NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. WOULD EXPECT STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT NEAR THE DRY LINE ACROSS SWRN NE...BUT THE
BOUNDARY WILL CONTINUE TO BE A FOCUSING MECHANISM FOR THOSE
AREAS...GENERALLY WEST OF HIGHWAY 77. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP THIS
EVENING COULD BE SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND EVEN AN ISOLATED
TORNADO...BUT MORESO ACROSS CENTRAL NEBRASKA. ELSEWHERE...WE MAY NOT
SEE MUCH OVERNIGHT AND TRENDED POPS DOWNWARD FOR THAT REASON.

BY SUNDAY MORNING...PREFERRED THE MORE NORTHERN SOLUTION OF THE GFS
PLACEMENT OF THE SURFACE LOW. THIS WOULD KEEP MOST OF THE PRECIP
NORTH OF THE CWFA...BUT MAY STILL BE AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM IN THE
MORNING AS THE TAIL END OF THE VORT MAX MOVES THROUGH.

THEREAFTER...DID ADD SOME SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ACROSS SERN CWFA MONDAY
NIGHT AND TUESDAY AS THE NEXT SOUTHERN STREAM WAVE MOVES THROUGH THE
REGION AND GULF MOISTURE STREAMS NORTHWARD. BEYOND THEN...STILL
LOOKS LIKE THE NEXT COLD FRONT WILL ARRIVE ON WEDNESDAY WITH STRONG
STORMS EXPECTED THEN TOO.

&&

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

DEWALD
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 24, 6:05 AM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 24, 3:38 AM CDT, 5 hours 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
338 AM CDT SAT MAR 24 2007

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

0320 AM     HAIL             UEHLING                 41.73N 96.51W
03/24/2007  E1.00 INCH       DODGE              NE   TRAINED SPOTTER

            GROUND WAS COVERED WITH HAIL AND COMPLETELY WHITE.

&&
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 24, 1:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXColfax, Dodge41 min
Mar 24, 2:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCuming, Dodge44 min
Mar 24, 2:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXPlatte38 min
Mar 24, 3:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXBurt46 min
Mar 24, 4:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXWashington27 min
Mar 24, 4:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXHarrison52 min
Mar 24, 5:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXShelby35 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.