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Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this red flag warning at Mar 15, 2025, 1:56 AM CDT for Jefferson County, Saline County, Nebraska. It took effect at Mar 15, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 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
- Mar 15, 2025, 1:56 AM CDT (06:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 15, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2025, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
Counties Jefferson County, NE, Saline County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 304 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1423 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Mar 14, 6:03 PM CDT, 7 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 6:03 PM CDT, 7 hours 53 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 14, 11:42 AM CDT, 14 hours 14 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Omaha/Valley NE 1142 AM CDT Fri Mar 14 2025 IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-150645- Monona-Harrison-Shelby-Pottawattamie-Mills-Montgomery-Fremont- Page-Knox-Cedar-Thurston-Antelope-Pierce-Wayne-Boone-Madison- Stanton-Cuming-Burt-Platte-Colfax-Dodge-Washington-Butler- Saunders-Douglas-Sarpy-Seward-Lancaster-Cass-Otoe-Saline- Jefferson-Gage-Johnson-Nemaha-Pawnee-Richardson- 1142 AM CDT Fri Mar 14 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of southwest Iowa...west central Iowa...east central Nebraska...northeast Nebraska and southeast Nebraska. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight An intense weather system will move through the area today into Saturday. Southerly winds with gusts of 30 to 45 mph today will switch to northwest at 45 to 60 mph late tonight into Saturday. Travel may be difficult for light weight and high profile vehicles. There is a 30-50 percent chance for severe storms this afternoon mainly between 3 and 7 PM. The main threat with the severe storms will be damaging winds with the potential for gusts up to 75 mph, and hail up to one inch in diameter. An isolated weak tornado could also occur. Severe storms should initially develop along the Kansas and Nebraska border and then shift northward through the afternoon into the early evening. If severe storms, develop, threat should only last about 15 minutes at any given location. Extreme fire danger is expected for portions of southeast Nebraska and southwest Iowa on Friday as strong winds combine with low relative humidity. If storms don't drop much rainfall, we could see lightning spark wildfires this afternoon and evening. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday Rain will switch over to snow early Saturday morning, with up to an inch of snow expected in northeast Nebraska by noon Saturday. Regardless of snowfall amounts, any snow combined with the strong winds will lead to very poor visibility with blowing snow and potential travel impacts. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed this afternoon, and any reports of severe weather will be appreciated.
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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.