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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Omaha, NE

April 5, 202411 counties in Nebraska; 8 counties in Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this wind advisory at Apr 5, 2024, 2:34 PM CDT for 11 counties in Nebraska; 8 counties in Iowa. It took effect at Apr 6, 2024, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 5, 2024, 2:34 PM CDT (19:34 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 6, 2024, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 6, 2024, 4:39 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE

Counties Fremont County, IA, Harrison County, IA, Mills County, IA, Monona County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Burt County, NE, Cass County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Washington County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 47 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1682 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Apr 5, 11:59 AM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 5, 11:59 AM CDT, 2 hours 35 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
Apr 5, 2:19 AM CDT	High Wind Watch	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Butler, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 9 more	12 hr
Apr 5, 3:52 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 24 more	11 hr
Apr 5, 2:27 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 24 more	31 hr
Apr 5, 2:34 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 24 more	31 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Nebraska, 2024 Wind Advisories in Iowa, 2024 Every wind advisory 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.