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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 424, NWS Omaha, NE

September 23, 2008Pottawattamie County, Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 23, 2008, 4:01 PM CDT for Pottawattamie County, Iowa. It was in force for 15 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: Sep 23, 2008, 4:01 PM CDT (21:01 UTC)
Expired: Sep 23, 2008, 4:16 PM CDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Pottawattamie County, IA

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Sep 23, 3:20 AM CDT, 12 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 23, 3:20 AM CDT, 12 hours 41 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 23, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Jefferson	38 min
Sep 23, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe	39 min
Sep 23, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson	45 min
Sep 23, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Nemaha, Otoe	46 min
Sep 23, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Nemaha	15 min
Sep 23, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Nemaha	33 min
Sep 23, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass	27 min
Sep 23, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Shelby	37 min
Sep 23, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Page	44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 2008 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.