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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Omaha, NE

May 19, 2024Cass County, Nebraska; Mills County, Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2024, 6:54 AM CDT for Cass County, Nebraska; Mills County, Iowa. It was in force for 36 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 19, 2024, 6:54 AM CDT (11:54 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2024, 7:30 AM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Mills County, IA, Cass County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:56 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 19, 6:02 AM CDT, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 6:02 AM CDT, 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 19, 4:02 AM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 19, 6:37 AM CDT, 17 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 19, 5:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler, Lancaster, Saunders, Seward	18 min
May 19, 5:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Jefferson, Lancaster, Saline	9 min
May 19, 6:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Lancaster, Saunders, Seward	23 min
May 19, 6:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass, Lancaster	34 min
May 19, 7:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass	7 min
May 19, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Lancaster, Saline, Seward	51 min
May 19, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Gage, Johnson, Lancaster, Otoe	44 min
May 19, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass, Nemaha, Otoe	43 min
May 19, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2024 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Iowa, 2024 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2024

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.