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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Omaha, NE

July 7, 2016Antelope County, Pierce County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2016, 1:45 PM CDT for Antelope County, Pierce County, Nebraska. It was in force for 45 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: Jul 7, 2016, 1:45 PM CDT (18:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2016, 2:30 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Antelope County, NE, Pierce County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -552 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 778 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -269 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -234 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 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 Jul 7, 12:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 12:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 7, 12:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 7, 11:10 AM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 7, 11:11 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 7, 11:13 AM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 7, 11:50 AM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 1:03 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 1:34 PM CDT, 11 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
Jul 6, 8:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Knox	59 min
Jul 6, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Knox	48 min
Jul 6, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Knox	51 min
Jul 6, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cedar, Knox	51 min
Jul 6, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Knox, Pierce	52 min
Jul 6, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Madison, Pierce	63 min
Jul 6, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope	27 min
Jul 6, 10:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cedar, Wayne	51 min
Jul 6, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Boone	37 min
Jul 6, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cuming, Stanton, Thurston, Wayne	49 min
Jul 6, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Cuming, Thurston	59 min
Jul 6, 11:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Boone, Madison, Platte	29 min
Jul 6, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler, Colfax, Dodge, Platte, Saunders	32 min
Jul 6, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Colfax, Cuming, Dodge, Platte, Stanton	31 min
Jul 7, 12:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Burt	50 min
Jul 7, 12:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Dodge, Douglas, Sarpy, Saunders, Washington	34 min
Jul 7, 1:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler, Lancaster, Saunders, Seward	41 min
Jul 7, 1:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Cass, Douglas, Sarpy	48 min
Jul 7, 1:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler, Lancaster, Saline, Saunders, Seward	41 min
Jul 7, 1:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass, Lancaster, Sarpy, Saunders	37 min
Jul 7, 2:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass, Douglas, Sarpy	43 min
Jul 7, 2:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Lancaster, Otoe	43 min
Jul 7, 2:28 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Gage, Johnson, Pawnee	47 min
Jul 7, 2:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass, Otoe	40 min
Jul 7, 2:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe	50 min
Jul 7, 2:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson	53 min
Jul 7, 3:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Otoe	62 min
Jul 7, 1:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Platte	27 min
Jul 7, 1:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Antelope	26 min
Jul 7, 2:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Pierce	34 min
Jul 7, 3:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Wayne	31 min
Jul 7, 3:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Thurston	37 min
Jul 7, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cuming, Thurston	30 min
Jul 7, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Thurston	44 min
Jul 7, 6:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Sarpy	14 min
Jul 7, 12:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Harrison	23 min
Jul 7, 1:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Shelby	37 min
Jul 7, 2:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Mills, Montgomery, Page	33 min
Jul 7, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Monona	51 min
Jul 7, 5:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison	48 min
Jul 7, 5:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Shelby	33 min
Jul 7, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Shelby	29 min
Jul 7, 6:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Shelby	33 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.