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Wind Advisory 11, NWS Omaha, NE

April 13, 20225 counties in Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this wind advisory at Apr 13, 2022, 10:58 AM CDT for 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 13, 2022, 10:58 AM CDT (15:58 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 2022, 3:03 PM CDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE

Counties Antelope County, NE, Boone County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Knox County, NE, Pierce County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 158 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -269 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -234 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Apr 13, 6:23 AM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 13, 6:23 AM CDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 13, 4:09 AM CDT, 6 hours 49 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 13, 5:56 AM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 12, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Lancaster, Saline, Seward	45 min
Apr 12, 7:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Cuming, Thurston	43 min
Apr 12, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Jefferson, Saline	44 min
Apr 12, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Cass, Douglas, Lancaster, Otoe, Sarpy, Saunders and 1 more	39 min
Apr 12, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Burt, Dodge, Saunders, Washington	52 min
Apr 12, 7:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Lancaster	21 min
Apr 12, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Johnson, Lancaster, Otoe, Saline	50 min
Apr 12, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Douglas, Washington	10 min
Apr 12, 7:55 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming, Knox and 6 more	2 hr
Apr 12, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Cass, Douglas, Lancaster, Otoe, Sarpy, Saunders	50 min
Apr 12, 7:55 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming, Knox and 6 more	9 hr
Apr 12, 7:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Washington	18 min
Apr 12, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Washington	56 min
Apr 12, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Otoe, Pawnee	45 min
Apr 12, 8:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Cass, Douglas, Otoe, Sarpy	56 min
Apr 12, 8:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Sarpy	23 min
Apr 12, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Richardson	47 min
Apr 12, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass, Otoe	65 min
Apr 12, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Richardson	32 min
Apr 12, 9:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Nemaha, Otoe	22 min
Apr 12, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Richardson	49 min
Apr 12, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Nemaha, Richardson	25 min
Apr 13, 3:33 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 24 more	24 hr
Apr 13, 3:33 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cedar, Colfax and 16 more	17 hr
Apr 13, 3:12 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 17 more	28 hr
Apr 12, 8:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Harrison, Shelby	15 min
Apr 12, 8:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OAX	Harrison, Shelby	17 min
Apr 12, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Shelby	14 min
Apr 12, 8:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Harrison, Monona, Pottawattamie, Shelby	22 min
Apr 12, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Pottawattamie, Shelby	28 min

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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.