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High Wind Warning 5, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this high wind warning at May 16, 2025, 3:54 AM CDT for 14 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at May 16, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 11 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
- May 16, 2025, 3:54 AM CDT (08:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 16, 2025, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 16, 2025, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
Counties Antelope County, NE, Boone County, NE, Burt County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Knox County, NE, Madison County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Wayne County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2479 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind warning went out at May 15, 10:58 PM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 10:58 PM CDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
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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.