1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Sep 7, 1:15 PM CST, 4 hours 48 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 215 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2001 FORECAST CHALLENGES -- PRECIPITATION CHANCES SYNOPSIS -- FRONT IS NOT MAKING VERY FAST PROGRESS SOUTHEAST THROUGH SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. A WEAK WAVE AHEAD OF THE STRONGER SHORT WAVE NOW ENTERING WESTERN KANSAS HAS BEEN GENERATING SOME THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY FROM BIE NORTHEAST THROUGH OMA TO HNR AND RDA. ANOTHER STRONG WAVE IS DROPPING SOUTH SOUTHEAST INTO WYOMING ON THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF A LOW OVER MANITOBA. THIS WAVE IS ASSOCIATED WITH A 120-140 KNOT JET CORE AND HEIGHT FALLS OF 18 DECAMETERS AT TFX THIS MORNING. FORECAST -- THE FIRST MINOR WAVE MOVING NORTHEAST HAS BEEN GENERATING OCCASIONALLY STRONG BUT NOT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTHEAST THROUGH THE SOUTHEAST PART OF THE CWA. THERE HAS BEEN A STRONG PUSH SOUTH THROUGH EASTERN COLORADO AND FAR WESTERN KANSAS AT THE SURFACE BUT LITTLE EFFECTIVE PUSH FURTHER EAST. THE NEXT CONVECTION GROUP APPEARS TO HAVE STARTED WITH THE SHORT WAVE IN WESTERN KANSAS. SOME ACTIVITY WILL OCCUR AHEAD BUT CLOUDS IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA WOULD INDICATE SOUTHERLY FLOW IS PUSHING BACK NORTH AGAINST THE FRONT. ACTIVITY ACROSS AT LEAST THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE CWA SHOULD INCREASE THROUGH THE EVENING. ASSUMING THE ETA IS CORRECT THE WAVE SHOULD PUSH THROUGH SHORTLY AFTER MIDNIGHT. COOLER AIR SHOULD POUR IN BEHIND. THE NEXT WAVE WILL CONTINUE SOUTH SOUTHEAST. ALL THREE MODELS WANT TO GENERATE A LOW ALOFT WITH THE SYSTEM...ALTHOUGH TIMING AND DETAILS ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE. NET RESULT IS THAT IT WILL BE RELUCTANT TO COME OUT...AND GET TIME ENOUGH TO GET SOME MOISTURE IN AHEAD OF IT. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN COOL WITH THE NEXT BEST THREAT OF PRECIP AFTER TONIGHT ON SATURDAY NIGHT. CHANCE OF PRECIP WED AND THU IN THE EXTENDED. .OMA...NONE. POWERS
IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-080105- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 520 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2001 A SEVERE THUNDESTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA THROUGH 800 PM CDT. THE MAIN THREATS FROM THESE STORMS ARE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. MILLER
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
533 PM CDT FRI SEP 07 2001
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0500 PM 3 NW WESTERN NE .88 INCH HAIL
09/07/01 SALINE REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER. EVENT DURATION
3 MINUTES.
0500 PM 3 S WESTERN NE .88 INCH HAIL
09/07/01 SALINE REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0520 PM 2 W WILBER NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
09/07/01 SALINE REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-080300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 620 PM CDT FRI SEP 7 2001 A SEVERE THUNDESTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA THROUGH 800 PM CDT. THE MAIN THREATS FROM THESE STORMS ARE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST CORNER OF NEBRASKA UNTIL 1100 PM CDT. MILLER
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 126 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:03 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado tracked from southwest of Odell to just east of town near highway 8. The tornado struck a farmstead heavily damaging 6 outbuildings and a cottonwood and cedar tree shelterbelt. The damage path was reported to a Beatrice newspaper by the Gage county Emergency Manager.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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