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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Omaha, NE

June 16, 2025Cedar County, Knox County, Nebraska

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2025, 3:34 PM CDT for Cedar County, Knox County, Nebraska. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2025, 3:34 PM CDT (20:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2025, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Cedar County, NE, Knox County, NE

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 262 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: 20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -383 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1274 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -157 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 severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 16, 3:26 PM CDT, 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:26 PM CDT, 8 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
Jun 16, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cedar, Wayne	52 min
Jun 16, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Madison, Pierce, Stanton, Wayne	51 min
Jun 16, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Cuming, Stanton, Thurston, Wayne	43 min
Jun 16, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Burt, Cuming, Thurston	40 min
Jun 16, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cuming, Madison, Pierce, Stanton, Wayne	49 min
Jun 16, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Antelope, Madison, Pierce	51 min
Jun 16, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Madison, Stanton	31 min
Jun 16, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Madison	50 min
Jun 16, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Cuming, Dodge, Washington	48 min
Jun 16, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Colfax, Cuming, Madison, Platte, Stanton	48 min
Jun 16, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Boone, Madison, Platte	39 min
Jun 16, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Dodge, Douglas, Saunders, Washington	47 min
Jun 15, 8:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Montgomery, Pottawattamie	43 min

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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.