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Special Weather Statement, NWS Omaha, NE

June 10, 2012Montgomery County, Page County, Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this special weather statement at Jun 10, 2012, 9:02 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Page County, Iowa. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 10, 2012, 9:02 PM CDT (02:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2012, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE

Counties Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 110 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 863 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -137 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1243 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 8.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 10, 6:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 6:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
632 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2012

.AVIATION...

00Z TAFS FOR KOMA...KLNK...KOFK.

MID CLOUDS HAVE CLEARED KOFK AND NORTHWEST WINDS SHOULD DECREASE
THIS EVENING WITH VFR CONDITIONS. COLD FRONT WAS OVER THE KOMA
TAF SITE AT 6 PM AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY MAY BE IN THE AREA
FOR AN HOUR OR TWO YET THIS EVENING. CLOUDS WILL DECREASE AFTER
MIDNIGHT. THE COLD FRONT MOVED PAST KLNK AROUND 5 PM AND NORTHWEST
WINDS WILL DIMINISH. ALTHOUGH THERE ARE SOME SPOTTY SHRA/TSRA
BEHIND THE FRONT...DID NOT MENTION ANYTHING AT KLNK. EXPECT A
GRADUAL DECREASE IN CLOUDS THERE THROUGH THE EVENING AT KLNK.

NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE WITH SOME GUSTS 20-25 KNOTS BY
MID TO LATE MORNING MONDAY.

MILLER

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 313 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2012/

DISCUSSION...

FORECAST CHALLENGE IN THE VERY SHORT TERM DEALS WITH THUNDERSTORM
CHANCES...COVERAGE AND STRENGTH. AFTER THAT NEXT CONCERN IS WHEN
OR IF TO TRIM/DROP PRECIP CHANCES LATE NEXT WEEK INTO NEXT WEEKEND
FROM THOSE FORECAST BY A MODEL CONSENSUS/PREVIOUS FORECAST BLEND.

TONIGHT...COLD FRONT AT 00Z/7PM IS EXPECTED TO EXTEND NEAR A
HARLAN IA-A LITTLE WEST OF SHENANDOAH IA-AUBURN AND PAWNEE CITY
LINE. WILL GENERALLY CARRY A 3HR LIKELY POP WINDOW THAT REGION
AND LOCATIONS ESE ALONG WITH MENTION OF A SEVERE THREAT AS ML
CAPE VALUES WILL MOST LIKELY BE IN THE VICINITY OF 2K J/KG AND
EFFECTIVE BULK SHEAR WAS...PER SPC MESO PAGE...INCREASING TO AOA
30KTS. SINCE A LITTLE HIGH BASED ACCAS-LIKE SHOWERS HAD DEVELOPED
POST FRONTAL IN NERN NEBRASKA AS OF 19Z...LINGERED SMALLER AND
DECREASING POPS BACK TO LNK/FREMONT. STILL FEEL BULK OF ACTIVITY
WILL BE ESE OF THE FORECAST AREA BY 06Z IF NOT 03Z AND STARTED
DRASTICALLY LOWERING/DROPPING POPS BY THEN. DID KEEP A SLIVER OF
POPS IN SERN CORNERS AFTER 06Z MAINLY FOR COORDINATION PURPOSES
BUT ALSO BECAUSE H85 FRONT LINGERS WEAKENING SFC FRONT. AS
EXPECTED THIS TIME OF YEAR...AIRMASS WAS RECOVERING BEHIND THE
FRONT BUT IT HAD ALSO DRIED OUT. THAT SAID...BELIEVE FOR THE MOST
PART GUIDANCE WAS A LITTLE TOO COOL... ESPECIALLY SERN 1/2...SINCE
PUSH BEHIND FRONT WILL BE WEAKENING...NIGHT IS SHORT AND GROUND
WARM.

MONDAY AND TUESDAY...KEPT FORECAST DRY THOSE PERIODS AS SECONDARY
LOBE ROTATING AROUND ENE DEPARTING UPPER TROUGH WILL BE SENDING
HIGH PRESSURE DOWN MISSOURI AND UPPER MS VALLEYS. GFS WAS A BIT
MORE BULLISH IN COOLING ON MONDAY BUT IT LOOKED LIKE A GFS/NAM
BLEND WAS STILL WARRANTED WITH LTL/NO CHANGES FROM PREV FORECAST.
WARM ADVECTION ON BACK SIDE OF HIGH COUPLED WITH A WEAK WAVE
MOVING ACROSS THE PLAINS COULD TOUCH OFF A FEW SHOWERS/TSTMS LATE
TUESDAY BUT RESTRICTED ANY MENTION UNTIL TUE NIGHT. SINCE 12Z
ECMWF SUPPORTED SLIGHTLY COOLER GFS FOR MAX TEMPS ON TUESDAY...WHICH
WERE CLOSE TO PREV FORECAST...LITTLE/NO CHANGES MADE.

WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. AFOREMENTIONED SHORTWAVE ENERGY WILL BE
TRACKING INTO ERN DAKOTAS/ERN NEBR WEDNESDAY WITH DECENT AGREEMENT
BETWEEN GFS/NAM/ECMWF. COUPLED WITH MOISTURE AND SOME INSTABILITY
RETURN...SPREAD SMALL POPS FROM WESTERN AND NORTHERN SECTIONS WED
INTO THE SERN 2/3RDS OR SO WED NIGHT. GENERALLY DRY THEN BEHIND
WAVE ON THURSDAY. STILL SOME HINT AT ANOTHER PIECE OF ENERGY OR
MID LEVEL MOISTURE POCKET WANDERING NWD INTO CENTRAL PLAINS LATE
THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY BUT ANY LOW LEVEL BOUNDARY SHOULD BE FAR NW
OF FORECAST AREA. THUS AT THIS TIME JUST LINGERED SOME SLIGHT
CHANCE POPS W AND/OR N THU NIGHT AND FRIDAY CLOSER TO UPPER JET
TRACK. AFTER THAT GFS DEEPENED NEXT UPPER TROUGH KEEPING ANY FRONT
TO OUR WEST THROUGH NEXT WEEKEND ALONG WITH AN APPARENT MINIMAL
CHANCE OF PRECIP. ECMWF WAS MORE PROGRESSIVE WITH UPPER TROUGH
WHICH SHOVED A WEAKENING FRONT INTO ERN NEBRASKA/SWRN IA SATURDAY
WITH IT RETURNING NORTH OR WASHING OUT ON SUNDAY. BECAUSE OF THESE
DIFFERENCES...A LOW CONFIDENCE SMALL POP FORECAST WAS CARRIED IN
THE SAT THROUGH SUNDAY TIME PERIOD. VERY LITTLE/NO CHANGES MADE
TO A MODEL TEMPERATURE BLEND DUE TO CLOUD/PRECIP
UNCERTAINTIES...BUT WOULD SUSPECT THAT IN GENERAL MAX TEMPS WOULD
NEED INCREASING IN LATER FORECASTS IF TRENDS WOULD LEAN TOWARD
SLOWER GFS.

CHERMOK

&&

.OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NE...NONE.
IA...NONE.
&&

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 4:30 PM CDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
430 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2012

NEZ011-012-015>018-030>033-042-043-050-065-111100-
ANTELOPE-BOONE-BUTLER-CEDAR-COLFAX-CUMING-KNOX-MADISON-PIERCE-PLATTE-
SEWARD-STANTON-THURSTON-WAYNE-
430 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND MONDAY

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY

THERE WILL BE OFF AND ON THUNDERSTORM CHANCES FROM TUESDAY NIGHT
INTO WEDNESDAY THEN FROM THURSDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY AS NUMEROUS
WEATHER DISTURBANCES MOVE THROUGH THE PLAINS. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
LOOK TO BE THE MOST ACTIVE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT OR MONDAY.

IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ034-044-045-051>053-066>068-
078-088>093-111100-
BURT-CASS-DODGE-DOUGLAS-FREMONT IA-GAGE-HARRISON IA-JEFFERSON-
JOHNSON-LANCASTER-MILLS IA-MONONA IA-MONTGOMERY IA-NEMAHA-OTOE-
PAGE IA-PAWNEE-POTTAWATTAMIE IA-RICHARDSON-SALINE-SARPY-SAUNDERS-
SHELBY IA-WASHINGTON-
430 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PARTS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA
AND SOUTHWEST IOWA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND MONDAY

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE
POSSIBLE THROUGH THE EVENING...MAINLY EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE
FROM PENDER TO SEWARD. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT.

A COLD FRONT WILL HELP TRIGGER THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY AS IT
PUSHES EAST. STORMS SHOULD DECREASE IN STRENGTH AND COVERAGE BY
AROUND 11 PM.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY

THERE WILL BE OFF AND ON THUNDERSTORM CHANCES FROM TUESDAY NIGHT
INTO WEDNESDAY THEN FROM THURSDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY AS NUMEROUS
WEATHER DISTURBANCES MOVE THROUGH THE PLAINS. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
LOOK TO BE THE MOST ACTIVE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS SHOULD PASS ALONG ANY REPORTS OF HAIL DIME SIZE OR LARGER...
ANY STRONG WINDS OR FLOODING.

MILLER

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:24 PM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
424 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2012

IAZ043-055-102200-
MONONA IA-HARRISON IA-
424 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MONONA AND
HARRISON COUNTIES UNTIL 500 PM CDT...

AT 421 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS
TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR LOGAN...OR 26 MILES NORTH OF
OMAHA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LOGAN...WOODBINE...DUNLAP AND MAGNOLIA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO
AND TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE.

&&

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWESTERN IOWA AND EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4159 9581 4163 9590 4196 9578 4191 9567
      4186 9567 4186 9555 4177 9555
TIME...MOT...LOC 2121Z 203DEG 25KT 4163 9584

KERN

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
436 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2012

NEZ067-068-102200-
CASS NE-OTOE NE-
436 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CASS AND NORTH CENTRAL OTOE
COUNTIES UNTIL 500 PM CDT...

AT 435 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS
TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR AVOCA...OR 28 MILES EAST OF
LINCOLN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WEEPING WATER...MURRAY...AVOCA...UNION...NEHAWKA AND OTOE.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWESTERN IOWA AND EASTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4073 9626 4104 9600 4093 9583 4090 9581
      4088 9581 4087 9585 4082 9584 4067 9616
TIME...MOT...LOC 2135Z 222DEG 24KT 4074 9615

KERN

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:21 PM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
521 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2012

IAZ069-079-NEZ053-102245-
MILLS IA-POTTAWATTAMIE IA-SARPY NE-
521 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN MILLS...
SOUTHWESTERN POTTAWATTAMIE AND EAST CENTRAL SARPY COUNTIES UNTIL
545 PM CDT...

AT 518 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS
TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR OFFUTT AFB...OR 11 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF OMAHA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
COUNCIL BLUFFS...BELLEVUE AND OFFUTT AFB.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
INTERSTATE 29 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 39 AND 53...AND BETWEEN MILE
MARKERS 55 AND 56. INTERSTATE 80 IN IOWA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND
11.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWESTERN IOWA AND EASTERN NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4104 9587 4110 9600 4119 9595 4119 9592
      4125 9592 4128 9590 4129 9587 4132 9588
      4136 9585 4127 9562
TIME...MOT...LOC 2218Z 212DEG 45KT 4111 9592

KERN

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 5:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
538 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2012

IAZ055-056-069-102315-
SHELBY IA-POTTAWATTAMIE IA-HARRISON IA-
538 PM CDT SUN JUN 10 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WEST CENTRAL SHELBY...
NORTHWESTERN POTTAWATTAMIE AND HARRISON COUNTIES UNTIL 615 PM CDT...

AT 537 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS
TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR UNDERWOOD...OR 16 MILES
NORTHEAST OF OMAHA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LOGAN...UNDERWOOD...MINDEN...PERSIA...WOODBINE...NEOLA...
PORTSMOUTH AND MCCLELLAND.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 80 IN IOWA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 14 AND 29.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWESTERN IOWA AND EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4128 9563 4135 9585 4176 9578 4169 9543
TIME...MOT...LOC 2237Z 194DEG 32KT 4137 9573

KERN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 8:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Johnson, Nemaha	35 min
Jun 10, 11:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Otoe	31 min
Jun 10, 11:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Gage	27 min
Jun 11, 2:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Pawnee, Richardson	2 hr
Jun 10, 7:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Shelby	41 min
Jun 10, 7:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Montgomery	47 min
Jun 10, 11:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Montgomery	29 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Iowa, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.