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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Omaha, NE

February 27, 202510 counties in Nebraska; Monona County, Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this wind advisory at Feb 27, 2025, 1:19 PM CST for 10 counties in Nebraska; Monona County, Iowa. It took effect at Feb 28, 2025, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 27, 2025, 1:19 PM CST (19:19 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 28, 2025, 9:00 AM CST
Expired: Feb 28, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE

Counties Monona County, IA, Antelope County, NE, Burt County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Knox County, NE, Madison County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Wayne County, NE

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 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 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 1706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Feb 26, 4:56 PM CST, 20 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 4:56 PM CST, 20 hours 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 26, 3:45 PM CST, 21 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
Feb 27, 7:40 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	OAX	Butler, Platte	49 hr
Feb 27, 8:03 AM CST	Flood Watch	OAX	Antelope, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Cuming, Dodge and 8 more	61 hr
Feb 27, 1:36 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 24 more	29 hr

Nearby

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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.