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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 8, 2012, 4:38 PM CDT for Dodge County, Saunders County, Nebraska. It was in force for 37 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2012, 4:38 PM CDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2012, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Dodge County, NE, Saunders County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 4:38 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 15 Se Howells, NE | VERY SKINNY |
| Aug 8, 4:40 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 8 N Morse Bluff, NE |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 994 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -254 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
753
WFUS53 KOAX 082138
TOROAX
NEC053-155-082215-
/O.NEW.KOAX.TO.W.0019.120808T2138Z-120808T2215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
438 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
EXTREME NORTHWESTERN SAUNDERS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA...
SOUTHWESTERN DODGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA...
* UNTIL 515 PM CDT
* AT 435 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR
NORTHWEST OF MORSE BLUFF...OR 28 MILES EAST OF COLUMBUS. DOPPLER
RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NORTH BEND AND MORSE BLUFF.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE
HOME OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4166 9669 4149 9654 4142 9669 4139 9686
4157 9691 4160 9691 4160 9691
TIME...MOT...LOC 2135Z 321DEG 13KT 4155 9682
$$
DEWALD2 follow-up statements
369
WWUS53 KOAX 082148
SVSOAX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
448 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2012
NEC053-155-082215-
/O.CON.KOAX.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-120808T2215Z/
SAUNDERS NE-DODGE NE-
448 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR
EXTREME NORTHWESTERN SAUNDERS AND SOUTHWESTERN DODGE COUNTIES...
AT 444 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED
NORTH OF NORTH BEND...OR 31 MILES EAST OF COLUMBUS...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD AROUND 445 PM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NORTH BEND AND MORSE BLUFF.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE
HOME OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4164 9668 4149 9654 4142 9669 4142 9684
4157 9691
TIME...MOT...LOC 2144Z 317DEG 15KT 4151 9676
$$
DEWALD312
WWUS53 KOAX 082207
SVSOAX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
507 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2012
NEC053-155-082215-
/O.CON.KOAX.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-120808T2215Z/
SAUNDERS NE-DODGE NE-
507 PM CDT WED AUG 8 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR EXTREME
NORTHWESTERN SAUNDERS AND SOUTHWESTERN DODGE COUNTIES...
AT 503 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED
BETWEEN MORSE BLUFF AND CEDAR BLUFF...OR 34 MILES EAST OF
COLUMBUS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MORSE BLUFF.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE
HOME OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4153 9663 4147 9657 4142 9669 4142 9684
4145 9686 4145 9686
TIME...MOT...LOC 2203Z 321DEG 14KT 4145 9669
$$
DEWALDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 7:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Sarpy | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Sarpy | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 7:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Platte | 23 min |
| Aug 7, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Colfax, Platte | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Sarpy | 43 min |
| Aug 7, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Sarpy | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 9:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Douglas | 33 min |
| Aug 7, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Douglas, Washington | 24 min |
| Aug 8, 11:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Burt, Cuming, Dodge, Washington | 48 min |
| Aug 8, 4:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Otoe | 36 min |
| Aug 8, 4:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Dodge | 28 min |
| Aug 8, 4:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Otoe | 26 min |
| Aug 8, 4:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Cass | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe | 44 min |
| Aug 8, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Lancaster | 38 min |
| Aug 8, 5:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Dodge, Saunders | 29 min |
| Aug 8, 5:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Richardson | 29 min |
| Aug 8, 5:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Cass, Sarpy | 33 min |
| Aug 8, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Sarpy | 29 min |
| Aug 8, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass | 31 min |
| Aug 8, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Sarpy | 35 min |
| Aug 8, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Douglas | 29 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.