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Winter Storm Warning 4, NWS Omaha, NE

December 10, 200714 counties in Nebraska; 5 counties in Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this winter storm warning at Dec 10, 2007, 4:21 AM CST for 14 counties in Nebraska; 5 counties in Iowa. It took effect at Dec 10, 2007, 3:57 PM CST. It was in force for 24 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 10, 2007, 4:21 AM CST (10:21 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 10, 2007, 3:57 PM CST
Expired
Dec 11, 2007, 4:00 PM CST
In force
24 hr
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE

Counties Fremont County, IA, Mills County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Cass County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:23 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 nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 69 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 00:00Z on 2007-12-10Temperature 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2007-12-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
95 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 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 winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Dec 10, 3:30 AM CST, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 10, 3:30 AM CST, 51 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 10, 4:21 AM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryOAXAntelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Colfax, Cuming and 9 more33 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Nebraska, 2007Winter Storm Warnings in Iowa, 2007Every winter storm 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.