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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Omaha, NE

January 29, 202211 counties in Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this red flag warning at Jan 29, 2022, 2:55 AM CST for 11 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Jan 29, 2022, 11:00 AM CST. It was in force for 7 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
Jan 29, 2022, 2:55 AM CST (08:55 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 29, 2022, 11:00 AM CST
Expired
Jan 29, 2022, 6:00 PM CST
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Omaha, NE

Counties Antelope County, NE, Boone County, NE, Butler County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Madison County, NE, Platte County, NE, Saline County, NE, Seward County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:57 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 277 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2022-01-29Temperature 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2022-01-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
3283 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.