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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Omaha, NE

May 26, 2024Mills County, Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2024, 5:34 PM CDT for Mills County, Iowa. It was in force for 28 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 26, 2024, 5:34 PM CDT (22:34 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2024, 6:02 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

County Mills County, IA

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 26, 3:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 3:36 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 3:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 3:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 26, 4:22 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 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
May 25, 9:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Jefferson, Saline	29 min
May 25, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Jefferson	45 min
May 25, 9:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Johnson, Lancaster, Otoe	27 min
May 25, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pawnee, Richardson	52 min
May 25, 10:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Gage, Pawnee	4 hr
May 25, 10:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Gage, Pawnee, Richardson	5 hr
May 25, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Pawnee, Richardson	47 min
May 25, 10:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Colfax	8 min
May 25, 10:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Colfax	29 min
May 25, 10:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Platte	38 min
May 25, 10:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Platte	91 min
May 25, 11:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Colfax	17 min
May 25, 11:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Dodge	33 min
May 25, 11:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Butler, Colfax, Dodge, Platte, Saunders	4 hr
May 25, 11:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Dodge	25 min
May 25, 11:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Burt	13 min
May 25, 11:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Colfax, Dodge	3 hr
May 25, 11:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	OAX	Cass, Johnson, Otoe, Sarpy	22 min
May 25, 11:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt	20 min
May 25, 11:48 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OAX	Burt, Cuming, Dodge, Washington	3 hr
May 25, 11:53 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	OAX	Cass, Douglas, Otoe, Sarpy	67 min
May 26, 12:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Monona	21 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.