Alert archive / Nebraska / Red Flag Warnings in 2014
Red Flag Warning 12, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this red flag warning at May 6, 2014, 3:25 PM CDT for 10 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at May 7, 2014, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2014, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 7, 2014, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- May 7, 2014, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
Counties Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Saline County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -792 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1227 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Nebraska, 2014Every red flag warning in 2014
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.