Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Omaha, NE

April 3, 2007Sarpy County, Nebraska; Mills County, Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2007, 1:19 AM CDT for Sarpy County, Nebraska; Mills County, Iowa. It was in force for 26 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: Apr 3, 2007, 1:19 AM CDT (06:19 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2007, 1:45 AM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Mills County, IA, Sarpy County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 3, 12:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

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.

Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 2, 10:41 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 3, 12:09 AM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
1209 AM CDT TUE APR 03 2007

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

1155 PM     TSTM WND GST     14 N COLUMBUS           41.64N 97.36W
04/02/2007  E60.00 MPH       PLATTE             NE   TRAINED SPOTTER

1155 PM     HAIL             14 N COLUMBUS           41.64N 97.36W
04/02/2007  M0.75 INCH       PLATTE             NE   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

CHERMOK

Local storm report, Apr 3, 12:25 AM CDT, 54 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
1225 AM CDT TUE APR 03 2007

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

1213 AM     HAIL             MILFORD                 40.77N 97.05W
04/03/2007  E0.75 INCH       SEWARD             NE   PUBLIC

&&

CHERMOK

Special weather statement, Apr 3, 1:10 AM CDT, 9 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
110 AM CDT TUE APR 3 2007

NEZ052-053-030655-
DOUGLAS-SARPY-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BELLEVUE...OMAHA
110 AM CDT TUE APR 3 2007

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PASS THROUGH OMAHA AREA...

A LINE OF FULGUROUS THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING THROUGH THE OMAHA AREA.
THESE STORMS CONTAIN FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HAIL UP TO HALF AN INCH IN
DIAMETER...WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 50 MPH...AND BRIEF TORRENTIAL
RAIN.  THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL MOVE EAST OF THE OMAHA AREA INTO
EASTERN POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY BY 145 AM.

NWS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 11:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Platte	33 min
Apr 2, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Seward	31 min
Apr 3, 12:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Colfax	24 min
Apr 3, 12:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage	38 min
Apr 3, 1:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Nemaha	38 min
Apr 3, 1:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pawnee	32 min
Apr 3, 1:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Nemaha	36 min
Apr 3, 2:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Richardson	58 min
Apr 3, 9:12 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 24 more	7 hr
Apr 3, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison	22 min
Apr 3, 1:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pottawattamie	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2007 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 2007 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.