Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 18, 2001

Name: Damaging Wind in Nebraska, July 18, 2001
Start: 2001-07-18T19:20
End: 2001-07-18T19:20
Location: Nebraska

July 18, 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: None recorded
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 Jul 18, 2:25 PM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 2:25 PM CST, 4 hours 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
325 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001

MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE IS TSTM THREAT...MAINLY TNGT.  AVN/ETA
REALLY CLOSE WITH MAIN DETAILS AND WILL FOLLOW THOSE MODELS.

SHORT TERM...SUBTROPICAL MOISTURE CONTS STREAMING OVR ERN NEBR/SWRN
IA WITH MAIN SFC BNDRY ALNG KS BORDER NEAR BIE AT 20Z.  OTHER WEAKER
SFC BOUNDARY OVR NERN NEBR SEEMED TO BE LOSING ITS IDENTITY.  LATEST
LAPS ANLYS SHOWD OVR 5000 J/KG SBCAPE BUT CIN WAS STILL MODERATE.
ELEVATED SHOWERS/ISOLD THUNDER CONTD TO MOV E TO W JUST N OF THE
BNDRY OVR SERN ZONES.  18Z MESOETA CONTD GENERAL TREND FM 12Z
ETA/AVN IN DVLPG CONVECTION ALONG SERN NEBR BNDRY THIS EVENING THEN
DROPPG IT SEWD OVERNIGHT.  CORFIDI VECTORS ALSO POINTED TO A SSE
MOVEMENT LATER TNGT.  SO WOULD EXPECT EITHER ELEVATED ACTIVITY TO
BECOME MORE INTENSE THIS EVENING AS LOW LVL JET INCREASES OR OTHER
STORMS TO DVLP IN VCNTY OF FNT.  WL PRBLY GO JUST SCT TSTMS SERN
NEBR SINCE ONGOING ELEVATED CONVECTION IS STILL IN PROGRESS.  CLOUDS
KEPT MAJORITY OF AREA FM REACHING HEAT ADVSRY CRITERIA THIS AFTN AND
CONVECTION/OUTFLOW SHOULD PUSH MOST READINGS LOW ENOUGH BELOW THE 80
HEAT INDEX TNGT.  MAV/FWC COMPROMISE LOOKS GOOD FOR LOWS TNGT.

ON THU...NO BASIC CHANGE TO SYNOPTIC PATTERN ALTHOUGH UPR RIDGE
BUILDS SLIGHTLY.  ALTHOUGH INSTABILITY AND CAPE FCST FM ETA IS
SIMILAR TO THAT OF THIS AFTN...CIN IS FCST TO BE A LITTLE HIGHER.
THUS WILL DROP POPS FOR THU AFTN ALL BUT THE SE.  SERN ZONES RMN
UNDER THE HIGHER MID LVL MOISTURE BAND AND PSBL OUTFLOW FM THIS
EVENINGS CONVECTION COULD RMN THERE.  WL KEEP PREV FCST HIGHS WHICH
LOOK REASONABLE UNLESS MOCLDY SKIES REPEAT.

THU NGT/FRI...AGAIN NO BIG CHANGES TO PTN AND TEMPS EXPECTED.
GENERALLY WENT WITH PERSISTENCE WITH HIGHS ALONG WITH SMALL POPS.
MAYBE A LITTLE HIGHER POPS NWRN ZONES FRI NGT AS WK FRONT FCST TO
APPROACH THAT AREA.
6
.OMA...NONE
CHERMOK

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 18, 4:44 PM CST, 2 hours 36 minutes before

IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-
042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-190430-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
544 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001

STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT IN
EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA.

MOIST AND VERY UNSTABLE AIR MASS CONTINUES TO OCCUR OVER THE AREA.
A BOUNDARY EXTENDS FROM NEAR AURORA TO LINCOLN TO JUST SOUTH OF THE
OMAHA METRO AREA.  THIS IS LIKELY THE AREA WHERE NEW THUNDERSTORMS
MAY DEVELOP.  WITH SUCH HIGH INSTABLITY...THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT
MAY BE RAPID AND QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE.  THE PRIMARY THREAT WILL BE
FROM LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS AS THE STORMS MOVE EAST.  THERE
IS A POSSIBILTY THAT AN ISOLATED TORNADO MAY OCCUR...SPECIALLY IN
SOUTHWEST IOWA...WHERE SHEAR PROFILES ARE MORE FAVORABLE.

SMITH

Local storm report, Jul 18, 6:27 PM CST, 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
727 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001

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

0711 PM    5 SW FAIRBURY             NE   70 MPH TSTM GUST
07/18/01   JEFFERSON                      REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

Local storm report, Jul 18, 6:52 PM CST, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
752 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001

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

0720 PM    5 E FAIRBURY              NE   70 MPH TSTM GUST
07/18/01   JEFFERSON                      REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

0720 PM    5 E FAIRBURY              NE   WIND DAMAGE
07/18/01   JEFFERSON                      REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT. SHED
                                          DESTROYED

Local storm report, Jul 18, 7:19 PM CST, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
819 PM CDT WED JUL 18 2001

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

0755 PM    2 S ELLIS                 NE   70 MPH TSTM GUST
07/18/01   GAGE                           REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

0755 PM    2 S ELLIS                 NE   WIND DAMAGE
07/18/01   GAGE                           REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT. TREES DOWN.

0757 PM    1 E HARBINE               NE   60 MPH TSTM GUST
07/18/01   JEFFERSON                      REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

0757 PM    1 W ELLIS                 NE   WIND DAMAGE
07/18/01   GAGE                           REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT. LARGE TREE
                                          DOWN.

The radar

The Omaha radar (KOAX), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:22 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Gage

When: July 18, 7:20 PM CST
Where: Gage County, Beatrice
Measured: 60 kt (69 mph)
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.267, -96.733

Thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees and power lines in Beatrice.

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, July 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: 5258704.