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Wind Chill Warning 1, NWS Omaha, NE

February 20, 20086 counties in Nebraska; Harrison County, Monona County, Shelby County, Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this wind chill warning at Feb 20, 2008, 3:55 AM CST for 6 counties in Nebraska; Harrison County, Monona County, Shelby County, Iowa. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 20, 2008, 3:55 AM CST (09:55 UTC)
Expired
Feb 20, 2008, 10:20 AM CST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE

Counties Harrison County, IA, Monona County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Burt County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Knox County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Wayne County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 346 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2008-02-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Aberdeen, SD at 00:00Z on 2008-02-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
976 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
93 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill 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 wind chill warning went out at Feb 20, 3:21 AM CST, 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 20, 3:21 AM CST, 34 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 19, 4:41 PM CST, 11 hours 14 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
441 PM CST TUE FEB 19 2008

IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-042>045-
050>053-065>067-201245-
MONONA-HARRISON-SHELBY-POTTAWATTAMIE-MILLS-MONTGOMERY-KNOX-CEDAR-
THURSTON-ANTELOPE-PIERCE-WAYNE-BOONE-MADISON-STANTON-CUMING-BURT-
PLATTE-COLFAX-DODGE-WASHINGTON-BUTLER-SAUNDERS-DOUGLAS-SARPY-
SEWARD-LANCASTER-CASS-
441 PM CST TUE FEB 19 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST
IOWA...WEST CENTRAL IOWA...EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA...NORTHEAST
NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY

TEMPERATURES WILL DROP BELOW ZERO LATE TONIGHT AS NORTH WINDS
USHER IN AN ARCTIC COLD FRONT. THE SUB ZERO TEMPERATURES ALONG
WITH NORTH WINDS OF 10 TO 20 MPH WILL DRIVE WIND CHILL VALUES TO
20 TO 30 BELOW AT TIMES BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND NOON.

WHILE THE WINDS WILL DIMINISH THROUGH THE DAY WEDNESDAY...
TEMPERATURES WILL ONLY REBOUND INTO THE SINGLE DIGITS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT OR WEDNESDAY.

IAZ090-091-NEZ068-078-088>093-201245-
FREMONT-PAGE-OTOE-SALINE-JEFFERSON-GAGE-JOHNSON-NEMAHA-PAWNEE-
RICHARDSON-
441 PM CST TUE FEB 19 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST IOWA
AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY

TEMPERATURES WILL DROP INTO THE LOW SINGLE DIGITS AS NORTH WINDS
USHER IN AN ARCTIC COLD FRONT. THE COLD TEMPERATURES ALONG WITH NORTH
WINDS OF 10 TO 20 MPH WILL DRIVE WIND CHILL VALUES TO 10 TO 25 BELOW
AT TIMES BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND NOON.

WHILE THE WINDS WILL DIMINISH THROUGH THE DAY WEDNESDAY...
TEMPERATURES WILL ONLY REBOUND INTO THE UPPER SINGLE DIGITS OR
LOWER TEENS DURING THE AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR LIGHT SNOW BOTH THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
AS A COUPLE OF STORM SYSTEM PASS SOUTH OF THE AREA. ANY SNOW
ACCUMULATION WILL BE LIGHT...TOTALING LESS THAN AN INCH BOTH DAYS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT OR WEDNESDAY.

DERGAN

Nearby

Wind Chill Warnings in Nebraska, 2008Wind Chill Warnings in Iowa, 2008Every wind chill 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.