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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2014, 5:52 PM CDT for 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 38 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 14, 2014, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2014, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Antelope County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Knox County, NE, Pierce County, NE
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1288 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 14, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 5:12 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 512 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2014 IAZ043-055-056-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-042>045-050-051-065-078- 088-151215- MONONA-HARRISON-SHELBY-KNOX-CEDAR-THURSTON-ANTELOPE-PIERCE-WAYNE- BOONE-MADISON-STANTON-CUMING-BURT-PLATTE-COLFAX-DODGE-WASHINGTON- BUTLER-SAUNDERS-SEWARD-SALINE-JEFFERSON- 512 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN IOWA AND EASTERN NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND SUNDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE IN AREAL COVERAGE THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS ALONG A COLD FRONT PUSHING INTO THE OUTLOOK AREA. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL OR LARGER ALONG WITH DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS. ALSO...ISOLATED TORNADOS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE MORE DISCRETE STORMS. IN ADDITION...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WITH AMOUNTS OF TWO INCHES OR MORE IS LIKELY AND A FLASH FLOOD WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE AREA FROM COLUMBUS AND NORFOLK NORTHEAST INTO MONONA COUNTY IOWA. THE STORMS COULD CONTINUE OVER THE AREA INTO THE EARLY SUNDAY MORNING HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY STRONG OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY AFTERNOON INTO MONDAY EVENING AS A WARM FRONT REDEVELOPS OVER THE AREA AND MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY RETURN. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATER IN THE WEEK...POSSIBLY TUESDAY NIGHT BUT ESPECIALLY WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IAZ069-079-080-090-091-NEZ052-053-066>068-089>093-151215- POTTAWATTAMIE-MILLS-MONTGOMERY-FREMONT-PAGE-DOUGLAS-SARPY- LANCASTER-CASS-OTOE-GAGE-JOHNSON-NEMAHA-PAWNEE-RICHARDSON- 512 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST IOWA...EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND SUNDAY ALTHOUGH THERE IS A SMALL CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER THE AREA THROUGH EARLY EVENING...MOST LIKELY THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP NORTH THROUGH SOUTHWEST OF THE REGION BY EARLY EVENING AND PUSH INTO THE AREA FROM MID TO LATE EVENING. THE ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED ALONG A COLD FRONT AND DRYLINE THAT WILL PUSH INTO THE REGION. ALTHOUGH LARGE HAIL WITH DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS...ISOLATED TORNADOES CANNOT BE RULED OUT. LATER IN THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL SHIFT TO MAINLY DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN AS A COMPLEX PUSHES THROUGH THE REGION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY STRONG OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY AFTERNOON INTO MONDAY EVENING AS A WARM FRONT REDEVELOPS OVER THE AREA AND MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY RETURN. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATER IN THE WEEK...POSSIBLY TUESDAY NIGHT BUT ESPECIALLY WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED LATER THIS EVENING. CHERMOK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 4:00 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | OAX | Cass, Douglas, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster and 8 more | 13 hr |
| Jun 14, 3:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | OAX | Burt, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming, Madison, Pierce and 4 more | 13 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cedar, Pierce | 41 min |
| Jun 14, 6:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Boone | 35 min |
| Jun 14, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Boone | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 6:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Pierce, Wayne | 29 min |
| Jun 14, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Boone, Madison, Platte | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cedar, Pierce, Wayne | 29 min |
| Jun 14, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cedar, Wayne | 32 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.