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Tornado Warning 94, NWS Omaha, NE

June 2, 20244 counties in Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2024, 11:43 PM CDT for 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 17 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: Jun 2, 2024, 11:43 PM CDT (04:43 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 2024, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

Counties Butler County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 310 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: 2371 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1231 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 11.4

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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 Jun 2, 6:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 6:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 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
Jun 2, 7:50 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	OAX	Dodge	9 hr
Jun 2, 11:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Seward	24 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.