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Blizzard Warning 1, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this blizzard warning at Mar 14, 2026, 11:35 PM CDT for 6 counties in Nebraska; Monona County, Shelby County, Iowa. It took effect at Mar 15, 2026, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 15 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 14, 2026, 11:35 PM CDT (04:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 15, 2026, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2026, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
Counties Monona County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Antelope County, NE, Cedar County, NE, Knox County, NE, Pierce 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 04:37 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 325 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
- 3234 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this blizzard 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 blizzard warning went out at Mar 14, 6:44 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 6:44 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 11:18 PM CDT | Cold Weather Advisory | OAX | Burt, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming, Dodge, Knox and 6 more | 35 hr |
Nearby
Blizzard Warnings in Nebraska, 2026Blizzard Warnings in Iowa, 2026Every blizzard warning in 2026
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.