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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Omaha, NE

July 18, 2010Lancaster County, Seward County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2010, 12:21 AM CDT for Lancaster County, Seward County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 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 18, 2010, 12:21 AM CDT (05:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 2010, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Lancaster County, NE, Seward County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 71 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2010-07-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4573 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, Omaha, NE at 00:00Z on 2010-07-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
4573 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1226 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
257 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
5.0

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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 Jul 17, 3:04 PM CDT, 9 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 3:04 PM CDT, 9 hours 17 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 12:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXMadison, Platte, Stanton47 min
Jul 18, 12:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXBoone, Platte43 min
Jul 18, 12:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXGage, Johnson, Lancaster, Otoe47 min
Jul 18, 1:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXJohnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Richardson42 min
Jul 18, 1:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXBurt48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2010Every severe thunderstorm 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.