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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Omaha, NE

March 14, 202520 counties in Nebraska; Monona County, Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this wind advisory at Mar 14, 2025, 10:50 AM CDT for 20 counties in Nebraska; Monona County, Iowa. It took effect at Mar 15, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 14, 2025, 10:50 AM CDT (15:50 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 15, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT
Expired: Mar 15, 2025, 12:47 PM CDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE

All 21 counties

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, Knox County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Madison County, NE, Pierce County, NE, Platte County, NE, Saline 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), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:54 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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 74 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: 2477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 273 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 296 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 Mar 14, 6:47 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 6:47 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 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
Mar 14, 2:05 AM CDT	High Wind Warning	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming, Knox and 5 more	30 hr
Mar 14, 2:24 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	OAX	Cass, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha and 4 more	18 hr
Mar 14, 11:09 AM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	OAX	Antelope, Cedar, Knox, Pierce, Wayne	21 hr
Mar 14, 3:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Richardson	47 min
Mar 14, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass, Gage, Johnson, Lancaster, Otoe	41 min
Mar 14, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Pawnee, Saline	24 min
Mar 14, 4:07 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	OAX	Cass, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha and 4 more	76 min
Mar 14, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Cass, Otoe	53 min
Mar 14, 4:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler, Cass, Lancaster, Otoe, Saline, Sarpy and 2 more	51 min
Mar 14, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Dodge, Douglas, Sarpy, Saunders, Washington	51 min
Mar 14, 4:38 PM CDT	Dust Storm Advisory	OAX	Cass, Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Otoe and 3 more	52 min
Mar 14, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Washington	46 min
Mar 14, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Colfax, Platte, Stanton	23 min
Mar 14, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Thurston	49 min
Mar 14, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Colfax, Madison, Platte, Stanton	22 min
Mar 14, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Burt, Washington	30 min
Mar 14, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Stanton, Wayne	44 min
Mar 14, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Burt, Cuming, Dodge	28 min
Mar 14, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Madison, Stanton	17 min
Mar 14, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Fremont, Mills, Montgomery, Page	39 min
Mar 14, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Montgomery, Pottawattamie, Shelby	38 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.