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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 350, NWS Omaha, NE

August 19, 2011Pawnee County, Richardson County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2011, 9:34 PM CDT for Pawnee County, Richardson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 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: Aug 19, 2011, 9:34 PM CDT (02:34 UTC)
Expired: Aug 19, 2011, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE

The radar

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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 Aug 19, 9:14 PM CDT, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 9:14 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 19, 9:07 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 19, 8:47 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
847 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0825 PM     HAIL             3 N ADAMS               40.50N 96.51W
08/19/2011  E1.00 INCH       GAGE               NE   PUBLIC

&&

VDEWALD

Local storm report, Aug 19, 9:27 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
927 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0900 PM     HAIL             4 SW TECUMSEH           40.33N 96.24W
08/19/2011  E1.00 INCH       JOHNSON            NE   PUBLIC

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VDEWALD

Local storm report, Aug 19, 9:31 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
931 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 2011

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0920 PM     HAIL             2 WSW ELK CREEK         40.28N 96.16W
08/19/2011  E1.00 INCH       JOHNSON            NE   TRAINED SPOTTER

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VDEWALD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 19, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha, Otoe	52 min
Aug 19, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Johnson	23 min
Aug 19, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson	37 min
Aug 19, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Jefferson, Saline	18 min
Aug 19, 10:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Johnson, Lancaster, Otoe	33 min
Aug 19, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Johnson	32 min
Aug 19, 11:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Pawnee, Richardson	3 hr

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.