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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2019, 8:14 PM CDT for Gage County, Jefferson County, Saline County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 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
- May 23, 2019, 8:14 PM CDT (01:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2019, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Saline County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 304 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 May 23, 5:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 5:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Johnson, Lancaster, Otoe | 22 min |
| May 23, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Pawnee | 20 min |
| May 24, 3:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Gage, Jefferson | 43 min |
| May 24, 3:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee | 49 min |
| May 24, 4:11 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson | 34 min |
| May 24, 4:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson | 39 min |
| May 24, 4:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Nemaha | 24 min |
| May 24, 4:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Nemaha, Richardson | 22 min |
| May 24, 5:27 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Gage, Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Richardson | 6 hr |
| May 24, 6:00 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | OAX | Nemaha | 34 hr |
| May 24, 6:00 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | OAX | Cass | 9 hr |
| May 24, 8:03 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | OAX | Gage | 21 days |
| May 24, 10:22 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | OAX | Gage | 30 hr |
| May 24, 1:02 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | OAX | Richardson | 31 hr |
| May 23, 11:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | OAX | Page | 33 min |
| May 24, 5:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Fremont, Montgomery, Page | 29 min |
| May 24, 5:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 5 hr |
| May 24, 6:02 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | OAX | Page | 32 hr |
| May 24, 7:54 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | OAX | Fremont | 47 hr |
| May 24, 9:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page | 3 hr |
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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.