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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Omaha, NE

June 22, 2010Boone County, Platte County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 2010, 1:58 AM CDT for Boone County, Platte County, Nebraska. 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
Jun 22, 2010, 1:58 AM CDT (06:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2010, 8:00 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Boone County, NE, Platte County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 241 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2010-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1261 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2010-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1261 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-241 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1673 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jun 21, 9:58 PM CDT, 4 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 9:58 PM CDT, 4 hours before
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In the hours before

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Special weather statement, Jun 22, 1:42 AM CDT, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
142 AM CDT TUE JUN 22 2010

NEZ017-031-220715-
MADISON NE-PIERCE NE-
142 AM CDT TUE JUN 22 2010

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR SOUTHERN PIERCE AND MADISON COUNTIES
UNTIL 215 AM CDT...

AT 137 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF NEWMAN GROVE...OR 21 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF NORFOLK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG
WITH HEAVY RAIN.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  NORFOLK...
  MEADOW GROVE...
  BATTLE CREEK...
  HADAR...
  PIERCE...
  TILDEN...
  WILLOW CREEK STATE RECREATION AREA...

TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED
ROADWAY.

MAYES
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 1:58 AM CDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
158 AM CDT TUE JUN 22 2010

NEZ031-032-042-043-220730-
COLFAX NE-MADISON NE-PLATTE NE-STANTON NE-
158 AM CDT TUE JUN 22 2010

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR SOUTHWESTERN STANTON...EASTERN
PLATTE...SOUTHEASTERN MADISON AND NORTHERN COLFAX COUNTIES UNTIL 230
AM CDT...

AT 156 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR CRESTON...OR 14 MILES NORTH OF COLUMBUS...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN.

LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  CRESTON...
  MADISON...
  LEIGH...
  CLARKSON...
  9 MILES NORTH OF SCHUYLER...
  8 MILES SOUTH OF STANTON...

TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED
ROADWAY.

MAYES

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 2:15 AM CDTHigh Wind WarningOAXButler, Lancaster, Saline, Saunders, Seward55 min
Jun 22, 9:50 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningOAXDodge3 days
Jun 22, 9:50 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningOAXDouglas24 hr
Jun 22, 9:50 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningOAXDodge38 hr
Jun 22, 9:50 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningOAXPlatte19 hr
Jun 22, 10:04 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningOAXGage23 hr
Jun 22, 12:18 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningOAXSaunders18 hr
Jun 22, 12:58 PM CDTRiver Flood AdvisoryOAXDodge36 hr
Jun 22, 2:59 PM CDTRiver Flood AdvisoryOAXSeward36 hr
Jun 22, 3:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchOAXAntelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 24 more12 hr
Jun 22, 3:32 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningOAXHarrison3 hr
Jun 22, 10:05 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningOAXMontgomery16 hr
Jun 22, 10:05 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningOAXPottawattamie16 hr
Jun 22, 10:05 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningOAXFremont16 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Nebraska, 2010Every flash flood warning in 2010

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.