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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2008, 11:51 PM CDT for Page County, Iowa. It was in force for 24 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
- May 6, 2008, 11:51 PM CDT (04:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2008, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Page County, IA
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 586 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1633 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
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 May 6, 4:29 PM CDT, 7 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 4:29 PM CDT, 7 hours 22 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 429 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2008 .DISCUSSION... LINE OF STRONG TSTMS SW THRU NE NEBRASKA INTO NW IA IS INTERCEPTING BEST MOIST UNSTABLE INFLOW. EXPECT THIS TREND TO CONTINUE AS LINE MOVES SE THIS EVE AND TNGT. HOWEVER IT IS POSSIBLE THAT ANOTHER LINE WILL DEVELOP IN NW KS AND PROPOGATE NE AS CAP WEAKENS FURTHER. 19Z OMA SOUNDING WAS WEAKLY CAPPED AT 800MB...WITH CAPE AROUND 1100. MOISTURE IS MODEST AND SO IS WIND SHEAR. HAIL AND OUTFLOW DOMINATED TSTMS MOST LIKELY. FLOODING IS NOT EXPECTED DUE TO PROGRESSION OF SYSTEM AND LACK OF DEEP MOISTURE. TSTMS SHOULD SWEEP SOUTHEAST AND BE OUT OF OUR AREA OR NEARLY SO BY MORNING. WED WILL BE A FAIR WEATHER DAY. COLD ADVECTION BEHIND SYSTEM IS NOT VERY STRONG SO TEMPS SHOULD BE NEAR SEASONAL NORMS. NEXT CHC FOR PRECIP COMES WITH A WEAKENING TROUGH MOVING ACROSS FROM THE PACIFIC NW AND MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL/NRN PLAINS LATE THU AND THU NGT. THERE MAY BE ENOUGH LEFTOVER MOISTURE FOR MODEST THUNDERSTORMS WITH THIS SYSTEM. WHAT APPEARS TO BE A STRONGER TROUGH CROSSES THE REGION FRIDAY NGT TO SATURDAY NGT. KEPT POPS A LITTLE HIGHER FOR THIS SYSTEM. EXPECT THERE WILL BE A BREAK OF A COUPLE DAYS OR SO BETWEEN SYSTEMS AS FLOW BEGINS TO BECOME MORE MERIDIONAL EARLY NEXT WEEK AFTER FLATTENING FOR A LITTLE WHILE. MODELS ARE HAVING SEVERE DIFFICULTY HANDLING THE TIMING OF SYSTEMS BY THEN...SO FORECAST CONFIDENCE IS RATHER LOW. HPC EVOLUTION OF FRONTS WAS AN ACCEPTABLE FIRST GUESS... AND DID NOT DEVIATE GREATLY FROM THIS SOLUTION. && .AVIATION... FOR TAF SITES KOMA...KLNK AND KOFK FOR FORECAST VALID THRU 07/12Z. EXPECT BROKEN LINE OF TSTMS FROM SW TO NE NEBRASKA TO ADVANCE SWD THROUGH THE NIGHT WITH GREATEST INTENSITY THROUGH 03Z. STRONGER STORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL...STRONG WINDS...AND HEAVY RAIN REDUCING VSBYS. BEST CHC OF TSTMS AT OFK BEFORE 03Z. OMA AND LNK HAVE BEST CHC FROM ABOUT 01Z-08Z BARRING POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT AHEAD OF MAIN LINE. THERE MAY BE A FEW HRS OF MVFR STRATOCU FOLLOWING THE TSTMS...BUT DRY AIR ADVECTION SHOULD THEN CLEAN OUT LOW CLDS. && .OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. IA...NONE. && POLLACK/FOBERT
Hazardous weather outlook, May 6, 11:00 PM CDT, 51 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 6, 6:57 PM CDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
657 PM CDT TUE MAY 06 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0650 PM HAIL 10 WSW PETERSBURG 41.80N 98.26W
05/06/2008 E1.75 INCH BOONE NE LAW ENFORCEMENT
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DEELocal storm report, May 6, 7:03 PM CDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Boone, Madison, Platte | 22 min |
| May 6, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt, Cuming, Thurston | 26 min |
| May 6, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt, Thurston | 21 min |
| May 6, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt, Washington | 37 min |
| May 6, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage | 23 min |
| May 6, 11:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson | 48 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.