Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 320, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2014, 12:12 AM CDT for Gage County, Jefferson County, Saline County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 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
- Aug 25, 2014, 12:12 AM CDT (05:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2014, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Saline County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:12 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
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 1445 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1460 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 13.7
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 Aug 24, 11:29 PM CDT, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 11:29 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 24, 4:49 PM CDT, 7 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 449 PM CDT SUN AUG 24 2014 IAZ043-055-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-042>045-050>053-065-066-078- 251200- MONONA-HARRISON-KNOX-CEDAR-THURSTON-ANTELOPE-PIERCE-WAYNE-BOONE- MADISON-STANTON-CUMING-BURT-PLATTE-COLFAX-DODGE-WASHINGTON-BUTLER- SAUNDERS-DOUGLAS-SARPY-SEWARD-LANCASTER-SALINE- 449 PM CDT SUN AUG 24 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL IOWA...EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA...NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND MONDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. A WEAK COLD FRONT STRETCHED FROM WEST CENTRAL IOWA INTO SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT THIS EVENING AS IT DRIFTS TO THE SOUTHEAST. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON MONDAY...MAINLY IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA...AS THE FRONT STALLS ALONG THE SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA BORDER INTO SOUTHWEST IOWA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL REMAIN IN THE FORECAST THROUGH THURSDAY AS THE STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY REMAINS ACROSS THE REGION. THE FRONT WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR SEVERAL ROUNDS OF STORMS...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80. IN THIS AREA...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONGER STORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES COULD OCCUR DURING THIS TIME WITH LOWER AMOUNTS NEAR THE KANSAS AND NEBRASKA BORDER REGION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT OR MONDAY. IAZ056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ067-068-088>093-251200- SHELBY-POTTAWATTAMIE-MILLS-MONTGOMERY-FREMONT-PAGE-CASS-OTOE- JEFFERSON-GAGE-JOHNSON-NEMAHA-PAWNEE-RICHARDSON- 449 PM CDT SUN AUG 24 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND MONDAY A WEAK COLD FRONT STRETCHED FROM WEST CENTRAL IOWA INTO SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA LATE THIS AFTERNOON. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP OVER SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING AS IT DRIFTS TO THE SOUTHEAST. ANY STORM THAT DEVELOPS MAY HAVE GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL...BUT WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AGAIN ON MONDAY...MAINLY IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA...AS THE FRONT STALLS ALONG THE SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA BORDER AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES WILL REMAIN IN THE FORECAST THROUGH THURSDAY AS THE STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY REMAINS ACROSS THE REGION. THE FRONT WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR SEVERAL ROUNDS OF STORMS...ESPECIALLY ALONG AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80. IN THIS AREA...LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONGER STORMS ARE POSSIBLE MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES COULD OCCUR DURING THIS TIME WITH LOWER AMOUNTS NEAR THE KANSAS AND NEBRASKA BORDER REGION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT OR MONDAY. FOBERT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 24, 6:59 PM CDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA 659 PM CDT SUN AUG 24 2014 NEZ091-093-250045- RICHARDSON NE-NEMAHA NE- 659 PM CDT SUN AUG 24 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHWESTERN RICHARDSON AND SOUTHEASTERN NEMAHA COUNTIES UNTIL 745 PM CDT... AT 658 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER HUMBOLDT...OR 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF SABETHA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. HALF INCH HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... AUBURN...HUMBOLDT...STELLA...NEMAHA...DAWSON AND 7 MILES SOUTH OF AUBURN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. && LAT...LON 4014 9601 4042 9592 4034 9565 4006 9587 TIME...MOT...LOC 2358Z 208DEG 20KT 4013 9594 FOBERT
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 12:09 AM CDT, 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
1209 AM CDT MON AUG 25 2014
NEZ066-078-088-089-250545-
GAGE NE-JEFFERSON NE-LANCASTER NE-SALINE NE-
1209 AM CDT MON AUG 25 2014
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN SALINE...
JEFFERSON...NORTHWESTERN GAGE AND SOUTH CENTRAL LANCASTER COUNTIES
UNTIL 1245 AM CDT...
AT 1208 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR PLYMOUTH TO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
GILEAD...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BEATRICE...FAIRBURY...WILBER...DE WITT...CORTLAND...PLYMOUTH...
DILLER...CLATONIA...HALLAM...PICKRELL...ENDICOTT...JANSEN...
SWANTON...REYNOLDS...STEELE CITY...HARBINE...CRYSTAL SPRINGS
CAMPGROUND...CAMP JEFFERSON...CUB CREEK RECREATIONAL AREA AND ROCK
CREEK STATION STATE HISTORICAL PARK.
LAT...LON 4013 9737 4037 9714 4057 9682 4051 9655
4004 9700 4001 9737
TIME...MOT...LOC 0508Z 253DEG 14KT 4032 9705 4010 9731
CHERMOKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 12:09 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Jefferson | 36 min |
| Aug 25, 12:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Gage, Jefferson, Johnson | 41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.