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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Omaha, NE

April 16, 2024Cuming County, Thurston County, Wayne County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this flash flood warning at Apr 16, 2024, 6:03 AM CDT for Cuming County, Thurston County, Wayne County, Nebraska. It was in force for 5 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: Apr 16, 2024, 6:03 AM CDT (11:03 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 2024, 11:00 AM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Cuming County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Wayne County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:02 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

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 860 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1961 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Apr 16, 2:52 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 2:52 AM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 16, 3:11 AM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Omaha/Valley NE
311 AM CDT Tue Apr 16 2024

IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-
042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-162215-
Monona-Harrison-Shelby-Pottawattamie-Mills-Montgomery-Fremont-
Page-Knox-Cedar-Thurston-Antelope-Pierce-Wayne-Boone-Madison-
Stanton-Cuming-Burt-Platte-Colfax-Dodge-Washington-Butler-
Saunders-Douglas-Sarpy-Seward-Lancaster-Cass-Otoe-Saline-
Jefferson-Gage-Johnson-Nemaha-Pawnee-Richardson-
311 AM CDT Tue Apr 16 2024

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of southwest
Iowa...west central Iowa...east central Nebraska...northeast
Nebraska and southeast Nebraska.

.DAY ONE...Today and Tonight

A round of strong to severe thunderstorms will move across the
area this morning. Damaging winds, hail as large as quarters, and
tornadoes will all be possible. Another line of storms will move
through this afternoon, with low potential for strong winds.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday

The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is possible tonight and early Tuesday.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 16, 12:54 AM CDT, 5 hours 9 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Omaha/Valley NE
1254 AM CDT Tue Apr 16 2024

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

1228 AM     Hail             1 S Wayne               42.23N 97.01W
04/16/2024  E0.50 Inch       Wayne              NE   Public

            Report from mPING.

&&

CA

Local storm report, Apr 16, 12:56 AM CDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Omaha/Valley NE
1256 AM CDT Tue Apr 16 2024

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

1222 AM     Hail             Wayne                   42.24N 97.02W
04/16/2024  M0.70 Inch       Wayne              NE   Public

            Photo on social media.

&&

CA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Cedar, Knox, Pierce	45 min
Apr 15, 11:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Knox	36 min
Apr 16, 1:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Cuming, Thurston, Wayne	3 hr
Apr 16, 3:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Jefferson, Saline, Seward	43 min
Apr 16, 4:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Knox, Madison, Pierce	43 min
Apr 16, 4:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Boone, Madison, Platte	33 min
Apr 16, 4:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler, Lancaster, Saline, Saunders, Seward	50 min
Apr 16, 5:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Lancaster	3 hr
Apr 16, 5:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler, Lancaster, Saunders, Seward	38 min
Apr 16, 5:27 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Butler, Saunders, Seward	18 min
Apr 16, 5:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler, Colfax, Dodge, Saunders	19 min
Apr 16, 6:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Johnson, Nemaha, Pawnee, Richardson	15 min
Apr 16, 6:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Madison, Pierce, Platte, Stanton, Wayne	4 hr
Apr 16, 7:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler, Seward	45 min
Apr 16, 8:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Platte	3 hr
Apr 16, 8:39 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Stanton	14 min
Apr 16, 10:10 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Cedar, Colfax, Platte, Stanton, Wayne	5 hr
Apr 16, 11:19 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Butler, Cedar, Colfax, Madison, Pierce, Platte and 2 more	4 hr
Apr 16, 11:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Colfax, Stanton	31 min
Apr 16, 11:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Madison, Stanton, Wayne	5 hr
Apr 16, 11:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OAX	Platte	24 min
Apr 16, 11:58 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Madison, Platte	19 min
Apr 16, 12:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Cedar, Wayne	4 hr
Apr 16, 12:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Platte	19 min
Apr 16, 12:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Madison, Pierce, Platte	3 hr
Apr 16, 1:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Colfax, Stanton	25 min
Apr 16, 1:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	OAX	Colfax, Stanton	12 min
Apr 16, 1:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	OAX	Colfax, Cuming, Dodge	22 min
Apr 16, 2:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Douglas	27 min
Apr 16, 4:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Cedar, Wayne	3 hr
Apr 16, 4:52 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Madison, Stanton, Wayne	3 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.