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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 233, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 18, 2015, 9:53 AM CDT for Otoe County, Nebraska; Fremont County, Mills County, Page County, Iowa. It was in force for 37 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
- Sep 18, 2015, 9:53 AM CDT (14:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2015, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
Counties Fremont County, IA, Mills County, IA, Page County, IA, Otoe County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Sep 18, 6:23 AM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 18, 6:23 AM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Sep 17, 7:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Richardson | 38 min |
| Sep 17, 7:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Nemaha | 24 min |
| Sep 17, 7:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Richardson | 21 min |
| Sep 18, 8:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Butler | 24 min |
| Sep 18, 9:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Lancaster | 27 min |
| Sep 18, 9:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Lancaster, Otoe | 34 min |
| Sep 18, 9:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Johnson, Otoe | 30 min |
| Sep 18, 9:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Nemaha, Otoe | 24 min |
| Sep 18, 9:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Lancaster | 45 min |
| Sep 18, 9:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Douglas, Washington | 43 min |
| Sep 18, 9:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Lancaster, Saunders, Seward | 34 min |
| Sep 18, 10:24 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Lancaster, Seward | 51 min |
| Sep 18, 10:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster, Seward | 29 min |
| Sep 18, 10:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Seward | 37 min |
| Sep 18, 10:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Lancaster, Sarpy, Saunders | 34 min |
| Sep 18, 11:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Saunders | 40 min |
| Sep 18, 11:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Sarpy | 26 min |
| Sep 18, 11:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Cass | 30 min |
| Sep 18, 12:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Cass, Sarpy | 44 min |
| Sep 18, 10:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Harrison, Pottawattamie | 29 min |
| Sep 18, 11:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Mills | 27 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 2015Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2015Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015
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.