Damaging Wind in Nebraska, April 22, 2001

Name: Damaging Wind in Nebraska, April 22, 2001
Start: 2001-04-22T21:15
End: 2001-04-22T21:15
Location: Nebraska

April 22, 2001 · NWS OAX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $10,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What forecasters said that day

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 22, 2:00 PM CST, 7 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 2:00 PM CST, 7 hours 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
300 PM CDT SUN APR 22 2001

MAIN FORECAST CONCERN IS PSBL SVR CONVECTION THRU THIS EVENING BUT
ALSO THEN WIND ALL ZONES TNGT AND THEN TEMPS...SPCLY AS IT COULD
INFLUENCE PCPN TYPE NWRN ZONES.  AVN IS A LTL FASTER WITH SPEED OF
SFC LOW THAN ETA AND NGM...WHICH ARE FAIRLY CLOSE.  WL USE COMP BTWN
ETA AND AVN.

SHORT TERM...CNVCTN INCREASING NEAR DRYLINE FM XTRME SCNTRL NEBR
INTO KS AIDED BY UPR DIVERGENCE AS JET SEGMENT LIFTS ACRS WRN KS AHD
OF UPR LOW.  OTHER ELEVATED CONVECTION DVLPG N OF WRMFNT WHICH HAS
BOWED N TO NR A OLU-TO JUST N OF TQE LINE AT 20Z.  WITH 50-70KT SRLY
MID LVL FLOW...NEBR STORMS WERE RAPIDLY MOVG N OF FNT BCMG MORE
ELEVATED BUT THIS COULD CHANGE THROUGH EARLY EVENING AS OUTFLOW
BNDRYS BCM THROWN INTO THE MIX.  WL CONT MENTION OF SVR TSTMS THIS
EVENING MOST ZONES.  BELIEVE HEAVIER RAIN THREAT WL BE SHIFTING OUT
OF NERN NEBR NEXT SVRL HRS BUT WL MONITOR.  NEXT CONCERN ARE SFC
WNDS WHICH WERE APPROACHING WIND ADVSRY IN WRM SECTOR SERN ZONES.
ALSO...SUBSIDENCE BHND DEPARTING LOW AND 50-60KT 850 MB WNDS FCST
WITH STG COLD ADVCTN TNT NWRN ZONES POINT TO STG WINDS DVLPG ON
BACKSIDE OF LOW.  WL ISSUE WIND ADVSRY NWRN ZONES FOR LATER TNGT AND
MONITOR SRN ZONES THIS EVENING.  COORDINATED WITH GID.  SOME 40 DEG
TEMP RANGE ACRS CWA THIS AFTN...AND STG COLD ADVCTN LATER TNGT WL
CHANGE THIS CONTRAST...SPCLY WITH AFTN HIGHS MON.  WITH SNOW JUST TO
W/NW OF CWA...WL CONT MENTION OF PCPN CHANGING TO SNOW NWRN ZONES
BUT NO ACCUM ATTM.

WL KEEP SMALL POPS IN THE MORNING...MAINLY N/E ZONES...ON MON BUT
PUSH BACK PARTIAL CLEARING TIL LATE E WITH HIGHS A FEW DEG BLO GUID.
WK SHRTWVS TO PIVOT OVR BUILDING UPR RDG MON NGT/TUE WITH WK WSHFT
COMING ACRS FCST AREA LATE TUE.  PCPN CHCS WITH IT LOOK PRETTY
REMOTE...BUT WL KEEP SLGT CHC IN TUE AFTN WITH WSHFT.  WL NOT
MENTION RAIN IN WARM ADVCTN MON NGT...ALTHOUGH WRM ADVCTN LATE
SHOULD HELP KEEP MOST LOWS ABV FREEZING.  WITH SFC WNDS BCMG SWRLY
TUE...AND CONTD WRM ADVCTN THRU 18Z AT LEAST...WL RUN HIGHS CLOSE TO
FWC/MAV BLEND WHICH ARE A LTL WRMER THAN PREV FCST.

.OMA...WIND ADVSR8Y TNGT ALONG AND NW OF A LINE FM OLU TO HARTINGTON
LINE
CHERMOK

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 22, 3:54 PM CST, 5 hours 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
454 PM CDT SUN APR 22 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0400 PM    NORFOLK                   NE   .75 INCH HAIL
04/22/01   MADISON                        REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

0429 PM    NORFOLK                   NE   1 INCH HAIL
04/22/01   MADISON                        REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0445 PM    2 NW OBERT                NE   .88 INCH HAIL
04/22/01   CEDAR                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

Local storm report, Apr 22, 5:12 PM CST, 4 hours 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
612 PM CDT SUN APR 22 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0555 PM    GREENWOOD                 NE   .75 INCH HAIL
04/22/01   CASS                           REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

0600 PM    3 N EAGLE                 NE   1.75 INCH HAIL
04/22/01   CASS                           REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Apr 22, 7:22 PM CST, 1 hour 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
822 PM CDT SUN APR 22 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0730 PM    3 E ITHACA                NE   TORNADO
04/22/01   SAUNDERS                       REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

0746 PM    1 SE ARLINGTON            NE   FUNNEL CLOUD
04/22/01   WASHINGTON                     REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

0754 PM    7 W BLAIR                 NE   TORNADO
04/22/01   WASHINGTON                     THREE OUTBUILDINGS
                                          LEVELED AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

Local storm report, Apr 22, 8:48 PM CST, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
948 PM CDT SUN APR 22 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0754 PM    7 W BLAIR                 NE   TORNADO
04/22/01   WASHINGTON                     *** 1 INJ ***
                                          AT LEAST THREE
                                          OUTBUILDINGS LEVELED
                                          AND POWER LINES DOWN.
                                          AT LEAST ONE HOME
                                          DAMAGED.  DAMAGE PATH
                                          3-4 MILES LONG AND 1-2
                                          MILES WIDE.
                                          COMBINATION OF TORNADO
                                          AND STRAIGHT LINE WIND
                                          DAMAGE.   EVENT TIME
                                          FROM 754 TO 757 PM.
                                          REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

Local storm report, Apr 22, 8:55 PM CST, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
955 PM CDT SUN APR 22 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0941 PM    1 SE LESHARA              NE   .75 INCH HAIL
04/22/01   SAUNDERS                       REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
                                          OPERATOR.

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 58 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:16 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Burt

When: April 22, 9:15 PM CST
Where: Burt County, Oakland
Measured: 60 kt (69 mph)
Property damage: $10,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 41.833, -96.467

Thunderstorm gust destroyed a cattle shed near Oakland.

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Nebraska in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Nebraska, April 2001

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5239644.