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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 334, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2008, 3:01 PM CDT for 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 44 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
- Jul 6, 2008, 3:01 PM CDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2008, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cuming County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Wayne County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 2155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1374 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 Jul 6, 11:16 AM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 11:16 AM CDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 12:01 PM CDT, 3 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 1201 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 2008 IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-070715- MONONA-HARRISON-SHELBY-POTTAWATTAMIE-MILLS-MONTGOMERY-FREMONT- PAGE-KNOX-CEDAR-THURSTON-ANTELOPE-PIERCE-WAYNE-BOONE-MADISON- STANTON-CUMING-BURT-PLATTE-COLFAX-DODGE-WASHINGTON-BUTLER- SAUNDERS-DOUGLAS-SARPY-SEWARD-LANCASTER-CASS-OTOE-SALINE- JEFFERSON-GAGE-JOHNSON-NEMAHA-PAWNEE-RICHARDSON- 1201 PM CDT SUN JUL 6 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST IOWA...WEST CENTRAL IOWA...EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA...NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ACROSS PARTS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA AND WESTERN IOWA FROM THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT AS A COLD FRONTMOVES IN FROM THE NORTHWEST. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS...THOUGH LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SLOWER MOVING AND WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING IS POSSIBLE IF STORMS DO TRACK REPEATEDLY OVER THE SAME LOCATIONS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY AFTERNOON AND MONDAY NIGHT AS A COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO PUSH SOUTH THROUGH THE MISSOURI RIVER VALLEY. WARM AND HUMID AIR SOUTH OF THE FRONT WILL PROVIDE INSTABILITY TO HELP THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP AS THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS. THUNDERSTORMS MAY LINGER OVER SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA INTO TUESDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... ESPECIALLY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND WEST CENTRAL IOWA. MAYES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt, Thurston | 41 min |
| Jul 6, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cuming, Thurston, Wayne | 27 min |
| Jul 6, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt, Thurston | 50 min |
| Jul 6, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cedar | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cuming | 16 min |
| Jul 6, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt, Thurston | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 4:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Burt, Thurston | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.