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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Omaha, NE

April 14, 2026Fremont County, Page County, Iowa

NWS Omaha, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 2026, 10:49 PM CDT for Fremont County, Page County, Iowa. It was in force for 41 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: Apr 14, 2026, 10:49 PM CDT (03:49 UTC)
Expired: Apr 14, 2026, 11:30 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Omaha, NE
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Fremont County, IA, Page County, IA

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:53 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 14, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 105 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: 342 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2096 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 288 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Apr 14, 6:35 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 6:35 PM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 14, 9:59 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Omaha/Valley NE
959 PM CDT Tue Apr 14 2026

IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-
042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-160300-
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-
959 PM CDT Tue Apr 14 2026

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southwest Iowa, west central
Iowa, east central Nebraska, northeast Nebraska and southeast
Nebraska.

.DAY ONE...Tonight.

Strong to severe storms remain possible evening into tonight, mainly
east of a line from Fairbury,NE, to Fremont, NE, to Woodbine, IA.
Large hail and damaging winds will be the primary threats. A second
round of storms will be possible Wednesday morning.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday.

Shower and storm chances continue Wednesday and Friday. Severe
storms will be possible at times, especially across southeast
Nebraska and southwest Iowa Friday afternoon and evening.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation may be needed at times this week, particularly
Tuesday night and Friday.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 14, 10:26 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Omaha/Valley NE
1026 PM CDT Tue Apr 14 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1017 PM     Hail             Beatrice                40.26N 96.74W
04/14/2026  M1.00 Inch       Gage               NE   Trained Spotter

            Spotter reported quarter-sized hail in
            Beatrice, time estimated from radar.

&&

DMP

The office that day

Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Jefferson	49 min
Apr 14, 10:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Johnson	47 min
Apr 14, 11:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Gage, Jefferson, Saline	51 min
Apr 14, 11:16 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe	3 hr
Apr 14, 11:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	OAX	Gage, Johnson	3 hr
Apr 15, 12:07 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	OAX	Antelope, Boone, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming, Knox and 6 more	21 hr
Apr 15, 9:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Platte	36 min
Apr 15, 9:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler, Colfax	29 min
Apr 15, 10:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Dodge	42 min
Apr 15, 10:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Burt, Washington	36 min
Apr 15, 12:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler, Seward	38 min
Apr 15, 1:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Butler, Lancaster, Saunders, Seward	58 min
Apr 15, 2:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Dodge, Douglas, Saunders, Washington	37 min
Apr 14, 11:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Montgomery, Page	49 min
Apr 15, 10:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OAX	Harrison, Monona	46 min
Apr 15, 11:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OAX	Harrison, Shelby	51 min

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.