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High Wind Warning 8, NWS Omaha, NE

December 17, 202523 counties in Nebraska; Harrison County, Monona County, Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this high wind warning at Dec 17, 2025, 2:18 AM CST for 23 counties in Nebraska; Harrison County, Monona County, Iowa. It took effect at Dec 18, 2025, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 12 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: Dec 17, 2025, 2:18 AM CST (08:18 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 18, 2025, 6:00 AM CST
Expired: Dec 18, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE

All 25 counties

Harrison County, IA, Monona County, IA, Antelope County, NE, Boone County, NE, Burt County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Knox County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Madison County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte 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), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:16 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 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 59 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: 2283 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 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 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 Dec 16, 9:44 PM CST, 4 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 16, 9:44 PM CST, 4 hours 34 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
Dec 17, 2:18 AM CST	Wind Advisory	OAX	Cass, Gage, Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee and 1 more	40 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in Nebraska, 2025 High Wind Warnings in Iowa, 2025 Every high wind warning in 2025

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.