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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Omaha, NE

January 10, 202430 counties in Nebraska; 8 counties in Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this winter storm warning at Jan 10, 2024, 2:40 PM CST for 30 counties in Nebraska; 8 counties in Iowa. It took effect at Jan 11, 2024, 3:00 PM CST. It was in force for 51 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 10, 2024, 2:40 PM CST (20:40 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 11, 2024, 3:00 PM CST
Expired: Jan 13, 2024, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 51 hr
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE

All 38 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, Antelope County, NE, Boone County, NE, Burt County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Knox County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Madison County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Washington County, NE, Wayne County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 16 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: 1638 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 350 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 396 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 winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 10, 11:38 AM CST, 3 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 10, 11:38 AM CST, 3 hours 2 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
Jan 10, 2:10 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	OAX	Butler, Cass, Colfax, Dodge, Douglas, Gage and 13 more	13 hr
Jan 10, 2:43 AM CST	Wind Chill Watch	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 24 more	25 hr
Jan 10, 2:43 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 22 more	57 hr
Jan 10, 2:40 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Butler, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming and 12 more	23 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Nebraska, 2024 Winter Storm Warnings in Iowa, 2024 Every winter storm 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.