Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 410, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2008, 6:24 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Richardson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 51 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 24, 2008, 6:24 PM CDT (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2008, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 831 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1327 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 4:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | OAX | Pawnee, Richardson | 11 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.