1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Apr 10, 2:15 AM CST, 8 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 315 AM CDT TUE APR 10 2001 PRIMARY CONCERNS FOR THIS FORECAST ARE THE THREAT OF PCPN AND TEMPS INTO WED. 08Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWED LOW PRES CENTERED OVER ERN CO WITH A NRLY STNRY FNT EXTENDING E ACROSS KS AND MO INTO IL. MAIN AREA OF CONVECTION EARLY IN THE NIGHT WAS OVER MO AND ERN KS... AND STRATUS/FOG WAS ADVECTING RAPIDLY WWD FROM IA. LOW CLOUDS ARE EXPECTED TO LIFT DURING THE DAY. THE SFC LOW IS FORECAST TO DEEPEN TODAY IN RESPONSE TO A SHORTWAVE EJECTING OUT OF SW FLOW ALOFT. EXPECT SHOWERS AND TSTMS TO BE ON THE INCREASE IN COVERAGE EARLY THIS MORNING OVER SERN NE. LATEST 11-3.9 MICRON STLT IMAGES SHOWED SOME CLOUD DEVELOPMENT 4-5 KFT AGL FROM HLC TOWARD GBD. SFC DEWPTS IN THE 60S WERE BEING LIFTED INSENTROPICALLY OVER THE FNT. HAVE INCREASED POPS ALL AREAS FOR TODAY. EXPECT A DECENT RANGE OF MAX TEMPS...FROM 55 TO 60 IN THE NWRN PART OF FCST AREA TO THE LOWER TO MID 70S NEAR THE KS AND MO BORDERS. MAIN CLOSED LOW AT 500 MB STARTS TO LIFT OUT TNGT. WITH A FRONT IN THE VICINITY...PLENTY OF MOISTURE AND INCREASING DIVERGENCE ALOFT SEE NO REASON TO CHANGE CATEGORICAL POPS FOR TNGT. A FEW STORMS MAY BE SEVERE. EXPECT LOWS TO RANGE FROM THE 40S NW TO 50S SE. SFC LOW INTENSIFIES EVEN MORE ON WED...WHILE EJECTING NEWD. BEST CHANCE OF WIDESPREAD RAIN IS OVER THE NWRN 2/3 OF FCST AREA...WHILE SERN NE AND SWRN IA GET IN THE DRY SLOT. DRY SLOT WILL BECOME CONVECTIVELY UNSTABLE WITH LIFTED INDICES DROPPING TO NEAR -6 BY EARLY AFTN. WILL GO WITH THE TIMING DEPICTED BY THE ETA MODEL ON THE SURFACE LOW...MOVING IT TO NWRN IA BY 00Z THU. NGM IS FARTHER TO THE NORTH...WHILE THE AVN IS FARTHER WSW. BEST CHANCE OF WIDESPREAD MEASURABLE PCPN SHOULD BE OVER NERN NE...BUT WILL STILL KEEP A SMALL CHANCE ELSEWHERE IN CASE THE ETA TIMING IS OFF. FIRST DRAFT OF THE WORK ZONES WAS SENT. .OMA...NONE. MILLER
IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-101700- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 1112 AM CDT TUE APR 10 2001 STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE REQUIRED ACROSS PARTS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS. A SHORT LINE OF FAST MOVING THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL IN A LINE ABOUT 50 MILES WIDE FROM WAHOO EAST TOWARD OAKLAND IOWA THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. OTHER SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT ACROSS THE AREA. WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR IS LIFTING NORTH OVER A WARM FRONT IN NORTHERN KANSAS AND MISSOURI. THIS> WILL PROVIDE ENERGY FOR DEVELOPMENT OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AS THE FRONT MOVES NORTH INTO EASTERN NEBRASKA AND WESTERN IOWA THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. POLLACK
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 42 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:02 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
See the narrative for Douglas county, Nebraska, for the event that began at 1040 CST.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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