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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Omaha, NE

June 14, 2014Boone County, Madison County, Platte County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2014, 6:43 PM CDT for Boone County, Madison County, Platte County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 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, 6:43 PM CDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2014, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Boone County, NE, Madison County, NE, Platte County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

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, 6:16 PM CDT, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 6:16 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 6:25 PM CDT, 18 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
625 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2014

NEZ030-150000-
BOONE NE-
625 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2014

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR BOONE COUNTY UNTIL 700 PM CDT...

AT 624 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
NEAR BELGRADE...OR 36 MILES NORTH OF GRAND ISLAND...MOVING NORTH AT
30 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ALBION...CEDAR RAPIDS...PETERSBURG...PRIMROSE...THE HIGHWAY 14 AND 56
JUNCTION AND LORETTO.

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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1200 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING
FOR NORTHEAST NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4190 9819 4190 9785 4151 9795 4151 9804
      4150 9804 4150 9809 4149 9810 4148 9821
      4148 9829 4149 9829
TIME...MOT...LOC 2324Z 202DEG 58KT 4143 9819

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, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Cedar, Knox, Pierce	38 min
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, 6:46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.