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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 2024, 5:27 AM CDT for Butler County, Saunders County, Seward County, Nebraska. It was in force for 18 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
- Apr 16, 2024, 5:27 AM CDT (10:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2024, 5:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
Counties Butler County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:31 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 2:14 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 55 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.
- 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
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at Apr 16, 2:52 AM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 2:52 AM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 16, 3:11 AM CDT, 2 hours 16 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, 4 hours 33 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.
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CALocal storm report, Apr 16, 12:56 AM CDT, 4 hours 31 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.
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CAThe 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, 5:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler, Colfax, Dodge, Saunders | 19 min |
| Apr 16, 6:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | OAX | Cuming, Thurston, Wayne | 5 hr |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
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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.