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Fire Weather Watch 5, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this fire weather watch at Dec 14, 2021, 2:26 AM CST for 15 counties in Nebraska; 5 counties in Iowa. It took effect at Dec 15, 2021, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 14, 2021, 2:26 AM CST (08:26 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 15, 2021, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Dec 14, 2021, 2:21 PM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
Counties Fremont County, IA, Mills County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:27 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 2103 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 402 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Dec 13, 10:57 PM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 10:57 PM CST, 3 hours 29 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 14, 2:20 AM CST | High Wind Warning | OAX | Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 24 more | 44 hr |
| Dec 14, 2:21 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Butler, Cass, Douglas, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson and 9 more | 28 hr |
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.