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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Omaha, NE

May 28, 2019Nemaha County, Pawnee County, Richardson County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 2019, 8:51 PM CDT for Nemaha County, Pawnee County, Richardson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 6 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
May 28, 2019, 8:51 PM CDT (01:51 UTC)
Expired
May 29, 2019, 2:45 AM CDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Nemaha County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:53 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 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 00:00Z on 2019-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2019-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at May 28, 4:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 4:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 28, 3:47 PM CDT, 5 hours 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
347 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0320 PM     HAIL             2 ESE FALLS CITY        40.06N 95.56W
05/28/2019  E1.00 INCH       RICHARDSON         NE   PUBLIC

            1.20 OF RAIN ALSO.

&&

DEWALD
Local storm report, May 28, 4:05 PM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
405 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0330 PM     FLOOD            1 WSW LINCOLN           40.81N 96.71W
05/28/2019                   LANCASTER          NE   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            SEVERAL ROADS STILL IMPACTED IN LINCOLN WITH
            HIGH WATER FROM THIS MORNING.

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Local storm report, May 28, 4:29 PM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 7:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXGage, Jefferson55 min
May 28, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXGage, Jefferson67 min
May 28, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXJohnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson31 min
May 28, 8:06 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningOAXRichardson49 min
May 28, 8:15 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningOAXNemaha, Richardson39 min
May 28, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXGage, Johnson, Pawnee41 min
May 28, 9:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXCass, Johnson, Otoe21 min
May 28, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXPawnee, Richardson49 min
May 28, 9:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAXRichardson32 min
May 29, 1:12 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningOAXGage51 hr
May 29, 8:53 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningOAXSarpy, Saunders34 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Nebraska, 2019Every flash flood warning in 2019

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.