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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 225, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2016, 4:45 PM CDT for Gage County, Johnson County, Pawnee 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
- Aug 24, 2016, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2016, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Gage County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Pawnee County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KFOE), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 845 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 3:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 3:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute 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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| Aug 23, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Seward | 40 min |
| Aug 23, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Douglas, Washington | 45 min |
| Aug 23, 7:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Burt | 45 min |
| Aug 23, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Washington | 50 min |
| Aug 23, 7:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Washington | 25 min |
| Aug 23, 8:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Washington | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Washington | 45 min |
| Aug 23, 8:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Dodge | 39 min |
| Aug 23, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge | 21 min |
| Aug 23, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Washington | 44 min |
| Aug 23, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge, Washington | 33 min |
| Aug 23, 9:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Burt, Dodge, Washington | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 9:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Douglas | 49 min |
| Aug 23, 9:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Douglas, Sarpy, Washington | 45 min |
| Aug 23, 9:51 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OAX | Douglas, Washington | 4 hr |
| Aug 23, 9:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Cuming | 33 min |
| Aug 23, 10:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Douglas, Sarpy, Washington | 29 min |
| Aug 23, 10:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Colfax | 26 min |
| Aug 23, 10:54 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OAX | Douglas | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 11:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OAX | Sarpy | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 11:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Cass, Lancaster | 52 min |
| Aug 23, 11:23 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Dodge, Douglas, Sarpy, Washington | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 11:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Cass, Lancaster, Saunders | 3 hr |
| Aug 24, 12:03 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Cass, Lancaster, Otoe | 42 min |
| Aug 24, 12:51 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Lancaster | 24 min |
| Aug 24, 2:45 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | OAX | Douglas | 6 hr |
| Aug 24, 4:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | OAX | Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson | 16 hr |
| Aug 24, 4:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Gage | 23 min |
| Aug 24, 5:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Johnson | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 5:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Nemaha | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 5:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Pawnee | 27 min |
| Aug 24, 6:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Nemaha | 36 min |
| Aug 24, 6:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Richardson | 9 min |
| Aug 24, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Richardson | 32 min |
| Aug 23, 7:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Monona | 50 min |
| Aug 23, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Monona | 39 min |
| Aug 23, 8:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Monona | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Harrison, Mills, Pottawattamie, Shelby | 48 min |
| Aug 24, 12:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Page | 28 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.