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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2014, 9:04 PM CDT for Cass County, Nebraska; Fremont County, Mills County, Iowa. It was in force for 26 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
- May 11, 2014, 9:04 PM CDT (02:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2014, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Fremont County, IA, Mills County, IA, Cass County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 2:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 2520 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.5
- Supercell composite
- 18.8
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 May 11, 6:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 11, 6:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
655 PM CDT SUN MAY 11 2014
.SHORT TERM...(TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY)
ISSUED AT 306 PM CDT SUN MAY 11 2014
OBVIOUS NEAR TERM CONCERN IS POTENTIAL SVR WX OUTBREAK THIS AFTN AND
EVENING. CURRENTLY...REGIONAL OBS WERE CLEARLY SHOWING A VERY
INTENSE...NEARLY STAGNANT..BAROCLINIC ZONE PARALLEL TO AN INVERTED
TROF EXTENDING ROUGHLY FROM ERN IA TO WRN KS. ENVIRONMENT JUST SOUTH
OF THE BNDRY CONTINUING TO DESTABILIZED IN RESPONSE TO DAYTIME HEATING
ALONG WITH STOUT LLVL MOISTURE TRANSPORT UNDERWAY...PWS VALUES AROUND
1.5" SO FAR....PUSHING SBCAPE TO 4000J/KG. WITH QUITE INTENSE EFF
SRH IN PLACE AS WELL...ELEMENTS OVERLAPPING FOR POSSIBLE TORNADIC
SUPERCELL DEVELOPMENT APPEAR TO FOCUSED VERY CLOSE TO THE SRN CWA.
JUST A MATTER OF TIME NOW FOR CONVECTION TO FIRE FROM ABOUT CNTRL KS
TO NERN NEB ALONG SFC BNDRY. RAP13 ADVERTISING 0-1KM EFF SRH/MEAN
LYR LCL/EXTREME INSTABILITY WILL REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR TOR
DEVELOPMENT THRU AT LEAST EARLY THIS EVENING. ALSO...GIVEN HIGH
ENVIRONMENTAL MOISTURE CONTENT/PCPN EFFICIENCY...IT IS QUITE
PROBABLE OCCASIONAL PDS OF HVY RAIN SHOWERS WILL RESULT IN AREAS OF
FLASH FLOODING THRU TONIGHT. THUS IN ADDITION TO TOR WATCH...HAVE
OPTED TO ISSUE FLASH FLOOD WATCH OVER MOST OF THE CWA AS WELL. PCPN
ACTIVITY SHOULD GRADUALLY COME TO AN END THEN BY EARLY MON EVENING.
DRY AND COOL THEN TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.
.LONG TERM...(WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY)
ISSUED AT 306 PM CDT SUN MAY 11 2014
GOING FCST IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE. ONLY SIGNIFICANT CHANGE MADE WAS
REMOVING POPS ON THURSDAY AS MODELS ARE IN AGREEMENT FOCUS FOR PCPN
DEVELOPMENT WILL BE WELL WEST OF THE CWA. OTHERWISE...COOL AIR
MASS/BELOW NORM TEMPS SHOULD PREVAIL THRU THE EXTENDED PDS WITH
LARGE/DEEP UPPER TROF PRETTY MUCH THE DOMINATE FEATURE OVER THE
CONUS.
&&
.AVIATION...(00Z TAFS FOR KOFK...KLNK AND KOMA.)
ISSUED AT 644 PM CDT SUN MAY 11 2014
LINE OF STRONG/SEVERE TSRA CURRENTLY PUSHING EWD THRU ERN NEB
ALONG A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT. EXPECT THREAT FOR STRONG/SVR TSRA
TO CONTINUE THRU REST OF THIS EVENING. AFTER MIDNIGHT...HAVE
MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS WITH TEMPO GROUPS FOR TSRA. BY 12Z MON...IFR
CONDITIONS ALONG WITH SHRA ACTIVITY SHOULD PREVAIL UNTIL LATE
MORNING. EXPECT MVFR CONDITIONS PREVAILING THEN THRU MON AFTN.
&&
.OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NE...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH MONDAY MORNING FOR NEZ015-032>034-
042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093.
IA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH MONDAY MORNING FOR IAZ043-055-056-069-
079-080-090-091.
&&
SHORT TERM...DEE
LONG TERM...DEE
AVIATION...DEEHazardous weather outlook, May 11, 4:29 PM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 429 PM CDT SUN MAY 11 2014 IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ015-018-030>034-042>045- 050>053-065>068-078-088>093-121130- MONONA-HARRISON-SHELBY-POTTAWATTAMIE-MILLS-MONTGOMERY-FREMONT- PAGE-THURSTON-WAYNE-BOONE-MADISON-STANTON-CUMING-BURT-PLATTE- COLFAX-DODGE-WASHINGTON-BUTLER-SAUNDERS-DOUGLAS-SARPY-SEWARD- LANCASTER-CASS-OTOE-SALINE-JEFFERSON-GAGE-JOHNSON-NEMAHA-PAWNEE- RICHARDSON- 429 PM CDT SUN MAY 11 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST IOWA...WEST CENTRAL IOWA...EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA...NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND MONDAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING ARE LIKELY THIS EVENING. SEVERE STORM ARE LIKELY DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. WITH STOUT ENVIRONMENTAL SHEAR IN PLACE...SOME STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES...ALONG WITH VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ALSO...GIVEN THE HIGH ENVIRONMENTAL MOISTURE CONTENT OVER THE REGION...IT IS QUITE PROBABLE OCCASIONAL PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN SHOWERS WILL RESULT IN AREAS OF FLASH FLOODING INTO EARLY MONDAY MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. VOLUNTEER SPOTTERS ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND WESTERN IOWA SHOULD BE READY FOR IMMEDIATE DEPLOYMENT. ALSO...ANY REPORTS OF FLASH FLOODING WOULD BE APPRECIATED. NEZ011-012-016-017-121130- KNOX-CEDAR-ANTELOPE-PIERCE- 429 PM CDT SUN MAY 11 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND MONDAY OCCASIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT...BUT THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS IS FARTHER TO THE SOUTH AND EAST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THROUGH MONDAY.
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Douglas, Sarpy, Saunders | 30 min |
| May 11, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Lancaster, Otoe | 40 min |
| May 11, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Douglas, Sarpy, Washington | 43 min |
| May 11, 7:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Saunders | 3 hr |
| May 11, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Lancaster, Otoe, Saline | 34 min |
| May 11, 7:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Douglas, Sarpy | 3 hr |
| May 11, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Jefferson, Saline | 31 min |
| May 11, 7:58 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | OAX | Seward | 60 hr |
| May 11, 7:58 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | OAX | Saline | 4 days |
| May 11, 8:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Lancaster | 3 hr |
| May 11, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Jefferson, Lancaster, Saline, Seward | 33 min |
| May 11, 8:15 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | OAX | Saunders | 35 hr |
| May 11, 8:15 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | OAX | Saunders | 25 hr |
| May 11, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Otoe | 42 min |
| May 11, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Gage, Johnson, Lancaster, Otoe | 31 min |
| May 11, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Otoe | 32 min |
| May 11, 9:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | OAX | Lancaster | 12 hr |
| May 11, 9:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Otoe | 35 min |
| May 11, 11:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | OAX | Saunders | 24 hr |
| May 12, 8:15 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | OAX | Cass, Saunders | 12 hr |
| May 12, 11:24 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | OAX | Seward | 20 hr |
| May 11, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison, Mills, Pottawattamie | 43 min |
| May 11, 7:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Pottawattamie | 5 hr |
| May 11, 7:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Monona | 16 min |
| May 11, 8:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 52 min |
| May 11, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Montgomery, Pottawattamie | 36 min |
| May 11, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 46 min |
| May 11, 10:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Montgomery | 33 min |
| May 11, 11:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Montgomery, Page | 48 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.