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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2011, 9:43 PM CDT for Cass County, Otoe County, Nebraska; Fremont County, Iowa. It was in force for 47 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
- Jun 1, 2011, 9:43 PM CDT (02:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2011, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Fremont County, IA, Cass County, NE, Otoe County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 1245 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1198 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 Jun 1, 3:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 3:00 PM CDT, 6 hours 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 300 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2011 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT. WARM FRONT OVER KANSAS AT 18Z WILL CONTINUE TO LIFT NORTH ACROSS NEBRASKA TONIGHT. A PERIOD OF THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THIS EVENING IN ADVANCE OF THE FRONT WITH MOST OF THE CONVECTION MOVING NORTH AND EAST THROUGH THE AREA AFTER MIDNIGHT. MUCH WARMER AND MORE HUMID CONDITIONS SPREADING INTO EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA THIS EVENING. FOBERT THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. FRONTAL BOUNDARY COULD BE DRAPED ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA EARLY ON THURSDAY...WHICH COULD STILL TRIGGER A FEW STORMS IN THE MORNING...BUT WILL BE LIFTING NORTHWARD...ALLOWING HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS TO OVERSPREAD THE AREA ONCE AGAIN. WINDS THURSDAY AFTERNOON SHOULD BE JUST BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA...BUT STILL A WINDY DAY WITH HIGHS IN THE LOWER 90S. THE NEXT FRONT IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO NORTHEAST NEBRASKA LATE THURSDAY NIGHT...THEN INTO THE HEART OF THE FORECAST AREA THROUGH THE DAY FRIDAY. COULD SEE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE FRONT THURSDAY NIGHT...BUT STRENGTHENING CAP SHOULD LIMIT ANY POTENTIAL ON FRIDAY...AND WILL LIKELY HOLD OFF UNTIL FRIDAY NIGHT WHEN A STRENGTHENING LOW LEVEL JET INCREASES CONVERGENCE OVER THE BOUNDARY WITH A RENEWED CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY NORTH OF I80. THE FRONT ON FRIDAY WILL ALSO SEPARATE 80S TO THE NORTH AND LOWER 90S TO THE SOUTH. .LONG TERM...SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY. COLD FRONT THAT STALLED NEAR OF JUST SOUTH OF I80 SHOULD LIFT BACK NORTH SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. THIS WILL CONTINUE TO BE A FOCUS FOR ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DURING THAT PERIOD AND PROVIDE A DELINEATION OF NORMAL 80S...TO HOTTER 90S TO OUR SOUTHWEST. HOWEVER...THE FRONT SHOULD LIFT NORTH OF THE REGION BY DAYBREAK MONDAY AS A RIDGE BUILDS BACK ACROSS THE REGION. THIS SHOULD SHUT OFF THE PRECIP CHANCES...BUT WILL ALSO ALLOW TEMPS TO RETURN TO THE LOWER 90S WITH SOUTHERLY WINDS ONCE AGAIN. WILL KEEP THINGS DRY UNTIL TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY WHEN THE NEXT FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA. DEWALD && .HYDROLOGY...NO MAJOR CHANGES TO ONGOING FLOOD CREST METHODOLOGY TODAY FROM THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND MISSOURI BASIN RIVER FORECAST CENTER. GAVINS POINT DAM INCREASED THEIR FLOW TO 81 KCFS TODAY...AND ARE FORECAST TO INCREASE TO 85 KCFS BOTH THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...THEN UP TO 100 KCFS BY SATURDAY...WITH A 5-10 KCFS INCREASE DAILY UNTIL WE REACH A PEAK DISCHARGE OF 150 KCFS BY JUN 10-14. TRAVEL TIME FROM GAVINS POINT TO OMAHA IS ABOUT 3 DAYS...THUS THE CREST COULD BE IN THE OMAHA AREA AROUND JUN 13-17. THESE ARE VERY PRELIMINARY ESTIMATES AND ARE SUBJECT TO REVISION. ONCE WE REACH THAT CREST... WOULD LIKELY REMAIN AT THOSE LEVELS FOR SEVERAL WEEKS. THUS ITS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT THIS HISTORIC FLOOD EVENT IS NOT A TYPICAL EVENT WHERE THE RIVER COMES UP AND GOES DOWN QUICKLY...IT WILL BE A VERY PROLONGED EVENT THAT COULD LAST THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE SUMMER. DEWALD && .AVIATION... TAF SITES KOFK/KOMA/KLNK 18Z TAFS WARM FRONT LIFTING NORTH ACROSS KANSAS AT 18Z WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK TO THE NORTH ACROSS NEBRASKA THIS EVENING AND INTO THE DAKOTAS BY 12Z ON THURSDAY. AREA OF CONVECTION HAD DEVELOPED OVER NORTHEAST KANSAS NEAR THE WARM FRONT AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTH WITH THE FRONT THROUGH TONIGHT. VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH SOME CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AT ALL THREE SITES DURING THE EVENING. FOBERT && .OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. IA...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 5:10 PM CDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 510 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2011 IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-021215- MONONA-HARRISON-SHELBY-POTTAWATTAMIE-MILLS-MONTGOMERY-FREMONT- PAGE-KNOX-CEDAR-THURSTON-ANTELOPE-PIERCE-WAYNE-BOONE-MADISON- STANTON-CUMING-BURT-PLATTE-COLFAX-DODGE-WASHINGTON-BUTLER- SAUNDERS-DOUGLAS-SARPY-SEWARD-LANCASTER-CASS-OTOE-SALINE- JEFFERSON-GAGE-JOHNSON-NEMAHA-PAWNEE-RICHARDSON- 510 PM CDT WED JUN 1 2011 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 THURSDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT...AND A FEW STORMS COULD BE STRONG IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA THIS EVENING WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS POSSIBLE. AFTER MIDNIGHT...THE BEST AXIS FOR STORMS WOULD BE ALONG AND EAST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER...WITH SOME HAIL STILL POSSIBLE. FLOODING WILL ALSO CONTINUE ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER FROM VERDEL THROUGH RULO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE WEEKEND...AND ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT. FLOODING WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER THROUGH THE NEXT SEVERAL WEEKS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WIDESPREAD SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TONIGHT...BUT IF STRONG STORMS DEVELOP...SPOTTER REPORTS WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Jefferson, Saline | 45 min |
| Jun 1, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Johnson, Lancaster, Otoe | 36 min |
| Jun 1, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Johnson, Otoe | 42 min |
| Jun 1, 9:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt | 38 min |
| Jun 1, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Thurston | 20 min |
| Jun 1, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Mills, Pottawattamie | 41 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2011Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 2011Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2011
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.