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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Omaha, NE

November 25, 201515 counties in Nebraska; 7 counties in Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this winter storm warning at Nov 25, 2015, 3:33 PM CST for 15 counties in Nebraska; 7 counties in Iowa. It took effect at Nov 26, 2015, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for 17 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 25, 2015, 3:33 PM CST (21:33 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 26, 2015, 9:00 AM CST
Expired: Nov 27, 2015, 2:05 AM CST
In force: 17 hr
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE

All 22 counties

Fremont County, IA, Harrison County, IA, Mills County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Cass County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Washington County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 57 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 993 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Nov 25, 3:03 PM CST, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 25, 3:03 PM CST, 30 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 25, 3:33 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	OAX	Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming and 17 more	35 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Nebraska, 2015 Winter Storm Warnings in Iowa, 2015 Every winter storm 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.