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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2025, 4:08 PM CDT for Cedar County, Wayne County, Nebraska. It was in force for 52 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, 4:08 PM CDT (21:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2025, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Cedar County, NE, Wayne County, NE
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 294 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
- 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
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, 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 3:26 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 3:58 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Omaha/Valley NE 358 PM CDT Mon Jun 16 2025 IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-171200- 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- 358 PM CDT Mon Jun 16 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of southwest Iowa...west central Iowa...east central Nebraska...northeast Nebraska and southeast Nebraska. .DAY ONE...Tonight and Tuesday Severe storm chances will linger into tonight (15-30% chance), with the primary threats being damaging winds, large hail, and localized flooding, but a tornado cannot be ruled out. Additional severe storm development is expected Tuesday afternoon and evening, mainly near and south of Interstate 80. The primary threats will be flooding, damaging winds, and large hail, though a tornado or two cannot be ruled out. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday night through Monday Chances are increasing for oppressive heat moving into the Central Plains late next week into next weekend as heat indices reach 100 to 105 degrees, especially Friday and Saturday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed at times today and Tuesday.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cedar, Knox | 41 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 | 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 | 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.