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Red Flag Warning 7, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this red flag warning at Mar 26, 2026, 1:11 PM CDT for 25 counties in Nebraska; 8 counties in Iowa. It took effect at Mar 27, 2026, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 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 26, 2026, 1:11 PM CDT (18:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 27, 2026, 12:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2026, 8:32 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
All 33 counties
Fremont County, IA, Harrison County, IA, Mills County, IA, Monona County, IA, Montgomery County, IA, Page County, IA, Pottawattamie County, IA, Shelby County, IA, Boone County, NE, Burt County, NE, Butler County, NE, Cass County, NE, Colfax County, NE, Cuming County, NE, Dodge County, NE, Douglas County, NE, Gage County, NE, Jefferson County, NE, Johnson County, NE, Lancaster County, NE, Madison County, NE, Nemaha County, NE, Otoe County, NE, Pawnee County, NE, Platte County, NE, Richardson County, NE, Saline County, NE, Sarpy County, NE, Saunders County, NE, Seward County, NE, Stanton County, NE, Thurston County, NE, Washington County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:13 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
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -765 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1877 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 11:21 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | OAX | Gage, Jefferson, Johnson, Lancaster, Nemaha, Otoe and 4 more | 23 hr |
| Mar 26, 1:11 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | OAX | Antelope, Boone, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar and 24 more | 19 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.