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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 428, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 23, 2008, 5:15 PM CDT for Nemaha County, Nebraska. 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, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 23, 2008, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Nemaha County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -279 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 969 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 385 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 4:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 23, 4:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 411 PM CDT TUE SEP 23 2008 .DISCUSSION...FRONT PUSHING THROUGH AREA NOW WITH MORE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF CONVECTIVE LINE MOVING EAST FASTER THAN NEAR KS BORDER. STRONG AND ISOLD SVR TSTMS LIKELY THE NEXT FEW HRS MAINLY IN SE NEB AND SW IA UNTIL INSTABILITY DECREASES AFT 00Z. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING CLEARING SKIES AND COOLER TEMPS TO THE NORTH WHILE SHOWERS AND TSTMS LINGER JUST SOUTH OF THE BORDER LATER TONIGHT. THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF TSTMS IN THE FAR SOUTH IN RETURN FLOW ON WED. BETTER MOISTURE AND LIFT MOVE ACROSS THE AREA WED NIGHT AS LLJ DEVELOPS AND FRONT JUMPS BACK INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS. INCREASED OVERNIGHT POPS SUBSTANTIALLY...ESPECIALLY IN THE NORTHEAST. A FEW SHOWERS MAY LINGER INTO THU MORNING...THEN RIDGING ALOFT WILL RESULT IN AT LEAST A COUPLE DAYS OF WARM DRY WEATHER. A MINOR WAVE IN THE NORTHERN PLAINS SHOULD DRIVE A FAIRLY WEAK FRONT ACROSS THE AREA FRIDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY SAT. FRONT WILL LIKELY PASS THROUGH DRY AT OUR LATITUDE AS RIDGE IS STILL FAIRLY STRONG ALOFT. WESTERLIES BUCKLE MORE STRONGLY LATE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. A STRONG UPPER LOW IN THE NORTHEAST PACIFIC SHARPENS A DOWNSTREAM RIDGE IN WESTERN NORTH AMER...AND A TROUGH IN EASTERN NORTH AMER. A STRONGLY DIGGING SHORT WAVE WILL PROVIDE AT LEAST A SLIGHT CHC OF TSTMS SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY FOLLOWED BY DRIER AND COOLER TEMPS. JUST HOW COOL IS UNCERTAIN...BUT IT IS CLEAR THAT THE BRUNT OF THE COLDER AIR WILL BE WELL TO OUR EAST. && .AVIATION... FOR TAF SITES KOMA/KLNK/KOFK THROUGH 24/18Z. LINGERING MVFR COND/TSRA ACTIVITY EXPECTED THRU ABOUT 00Z AT KOMA/KLNK ASSOCIATED WITH FROPA THRU ERN NEB THIS AFTN. AFT 00Z...OUTLOOK IS VFR ALL TAF SITES THRU THE PD. && .OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. IA...NONE. && DEE/POLLACK
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 23, 12:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 1250 PM CDT TUE SEP 23 2008 IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-232300- ANTELOPE-BOONE-BURT-BUTLER-CASS-CEDAR-COLFAX-CUMING-DODGE-DOUGLAS- FREMONT IA-GAGE-HARRISON IA-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-KNOX-LANCASTER-MADISON- MILLS IA-MONONA IA-MONTGOMERY IA-NEMAHA-OTOE-PAGE IA-PAWNEE-PIERCE- PLATTE-POTTAWATTAMIE IA-RICHARDSON-SALINE-SARPY-SAUNDERS-SEWARD- SHELBY IA-STANTON-THURSTON-WASHINGTON-WAYNE- 1250 PM CDT TUE SEP 23 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 A COLD FRONT MOVING ACROSS THE PLAINS WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THIS AFTERNOON FOR AREAS GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM THURSTON TO DAVID CITY TO FAIRBURY IN EASTERN NEBRASKA... AND THEN INTO SOUTHWEST IOWA BY LATE AFTERNOON AND INTO EVENING. THERE IS A CHANCE A FEW STORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE MAINLY OVER WEST CENTRAL IOWA WITH GUSTY WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE MAIN THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING FROM CENTRAL NEBRASKA NORTHEASTWARD INTO NORTHWEST IOWA. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MIGHT BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST IOWA. DEE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 23, 4:21 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
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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, 5:42 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, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 15 min |
| Sep 23, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont, Page | 44 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.