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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Omaha, NE

June 23, 2018Cedar County, Knox County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2018, 3:58 PM CDT for Cedar County, Knox County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 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
Jun 23, 2018, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2018, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Cedar County, NE, Knox County, NE

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2018-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 14 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Omaha, NE at 12:00Z on 2018-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-407 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
962 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
60 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 Jun 23, 3:55 PM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 3:55 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Omaha/Valley NE
355 PM CDT Sat Jun 23 2018

.SHORT TERM...(Tonight through Tuesday)
Issued at 324 PM CDT Sat Jun 23 2018

Main forecast problems are thunderstorms and precipitation
chances and any additional precipitation aggrivating flooding.
Unsettled weather pattern forecast through Monday over the area.
Upper low over northern Montana begins to drop southeast into the
central Rockies and central High Plains tonight into Sunday.

For the near term an upper shortwave trough is rotating around upper
low on the South/North Dakota border, This has caused convection
to develop over southeast South Dakota into northeast Nebraska.
There is about 1500 J/Kg of ML CAPE over eastern Nebraska with no
CIN. There is little bulk shear except in the 0-1Km layer. Expect
thunderstarms may continue to develop further south of the storm
near Knox County. Visible satellite imagery shows an area of
agitated cumulus from Knox County to near Platte County. So
thunderstorms may develop over that region his afternoon and then
spread east.

Models suggest an MCS may move across southern Kansas and northern
Oklahoma tonight. The question is how much this will impact
precipitation chances over Nebraska on Sunday. At this time it
appear some shower and thunderstorm will move across in the early
morning hours over eastern Nebraska.

As upper trough over Monatna moves into the high plains tommorow,
thunderstorm chances increase in eastern Nebraska and southwest
Iowa by midday Sunday and continues through the
evening.Thunderstorms will continue into the evening and overnight
on Sunday night as another MCS moves east across northern Kansas
and possibly the southern tier of counties in Nebraska. This will
have to be watched closely on Sunday night if there is a northward
trend for the MCS to move across. This may warrant a flood watch
over the southeast part of Nebraska as this area was inudated with
heavy rain this past week. Precipitation chances will continue
into Monday and Tuesday as upper low is cutoff off southeast South
Dakota on Monday amd moves into southern Minnesota aon the day
Tuesday.

.LONG TERM...(Tuesday night through Saturday)
Issued at 324 PM CDT Sat Jun 23 2018

After Upper low exits the area on Tuesday, upper level ridging
begins to move into the area. Temperatures begin to warm up into
the 90s. There is a chance of thunderstorms on early Thursday and
Saturday morning as nighttime convection rides over the upper
ridge and moves across the area.

&&

.AVIATION...(For the 18Z TAFS through 18Z Sunday afternoon)
Issued at 1214 PM CDT Sat Jun 23 2018

A few isolated TSRA may pop up in the vicinity of KOMA for a few
hours this afternoon. Otherwise...VFR expected thru the fcst pd.

&&

.OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NE...None.
IA...None.
&&

SHORT TERM...Smith
LONG TERM...Smith
AVIATION...DEE
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 10:54 AM CDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 2:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXKnox37 min
Jun 23, 3:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXKnox32 min
Jun 23, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXPierce37 min
Jun 23, 5:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXWayne36 min
Jun 23, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXStanton, Wayne45 min
Jun 23, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCuming, Stanton34 min

Nearby

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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.