Hail in Nebraska, June 29, 2005

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
240 PM CDT WED JUN 29 2005

.DISCUSSION...
FORECAST CONCERNS INITIALLY ARE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE STORMS THIS
AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING...THEN LINGERING THUNDERSTORM
CHANCES OVERNIGHT...CHANCE OF PRECIP FRI NIGHT INTO MON EVE...TEMPS
THROUGHOUT THE FORECAST.

THE LATEST SWO FOR DY1 HAS MUCH OF THE FCST AREA IN A SLIGHT RISK
FOR SEVERE WITH THE MODERATE RISK FROM NRN IA INTO MN.  THE LATEST
SFC MAP HAS SFC LOW PRES FM CNTRL AND SE SD INTO NCNTRL KS.  THE
CDFNT WAS THRU ONL AND LEXINGTON...WITH THE PREFRONTAL TROF NR OFK
AND AURORA.  TEMPERATURES WERE MOSTLY IN THE UPR 80S TO LOWER 90S
WITH 100 DEG A SLN.  DEWPOINTS WERE IN THE 60S AND LOWER 70S ALONG
THE MISSOURI RIVER INTO WRN IA.  MORNING UA MAPS HAD THE H85
DEWPOINTS OF 15 TO 17 DEG C POOLED FM THE DAKOTAS INTO MN AND IA.
OAXS SOUNDING HAD A 7 DEG 850 DEWPOINT AND A 4 DEG 700MB
DEWPOINT...AND WAS SATURATED A 500MB WITH STEEP LAPSE RATE FM JUST
ABOVE THE INVERSION ABOVE 850MB.  THE AREA OF LOW PRES WAS TILTED
WESTWARD WITH THE H85 LOWS OVER THE DAKOTAS AND THE H50 MB WAS OVR
MT AND WA. 12Z H50 TEMPS WITH THE COLD POOL ALOFT WERE AROUND -15
DEG C.

THE LATEST WSR-88D RADAR MOSAIC HAS WIDELY SCT ELEVATED -SHRA AND
-TSRA FM KS INTO ERN NEB AND IA WITH THE TREND WEAKENING.  THE
ORGANIZED CONVECTION WAS TO THE N AND E FROM THE DAKOTAS INTO
MN...CNTRL AND ERN IA AND IL.

MID LEVEL TROF OVR SRN CANADA EXTENDS S INTO THE DAKOTAS...NEB AND
KS BY THIS EVENING...AND SHIFTS INTO WRN IA BY THU AM.  THE SFC FNT
OVR CNTRL NEB WILL PROGRESS THRU THE FORECAST AREA DURING THIS
TIME.  19Z SPC GRAPHICS SHOWING MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AHEAD OF THE
FRONT IN ERN NEB AND CAP EXPECTED WEAKEN THIS AFTERNOON.  H85
PROFILERS HAVE LOW LEVEL JET FM ERN KS INTO CNTRL IS WITH A SECOND
MAX FM CNTRL IA INTO MN.  FCST SOUNDINGS LOSE THE CAP BY LATE
AFTERNOON.  EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE AS THE
AFTERNOON AND EVENING PROGRESS WITH MORE ORGANIZED STORMS AHEAD OF
AND ALONG THE FNT.  SEVERE STORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS
POSSIBLE INTO ERLY EVENING. COULD SEE SOME ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT
BEHIND THE FNT IN NE NEB WITH THE COLD POOL ALOFT THIS EVENING AND
LEFT SLIGHT CHC POPS THERE THRU MIDNIGHT.  H85 MOISTURE DRIES OUT
PROGRESSIVELY THROUGH 12Z.  KEPT DRY ALL BUT FAR SE DRY THU AM AND
LEFT DRY THROUGH FRI.  SLIGHTLY COOLER AIR AND BREEZY NW WINDS FRI.
HAVE HIGHS IN THE 80S BOTH THU AND FRI. MOISTURE RETURNS TO THE WRN
PLAINS FRI AFT STORMS DEVELOPING WEST...NW FLOW AND PER CORFIDI
VECTORS DROPPING SE.  HAVE PRECIP MENTIONED FRI NIGHT AND SAT WITH
ZONAL MID LEVEL FLOW PATTERN AND WEAK IMPULSE.  SUN INTO MON
EVE...THERE IS THE APPROACH OF ANOTHER SHORTWAVE TROF ACRS THE NRN
U.S.  HAVE CHC POPS...SUN AFT AND SUN NIGHT.  LOW POPS WILL NEED TO
BE REFINED IN EXTENDED WITH SFC FNT AND ZONAL MID LEVEL FLOW. ECWMF
HAS A LITTLE WRMR TEMPS...BUT LEFT EXTENDED TEMPS IN THE 80S.

.OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...

NE...NONE.
IA...NONE.

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ZAPOTOCNY

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
1159 AM CDT WED JUN 29 2005

IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034-
042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-292300-
ANTELOPE-BOONE-BURT-BUTLER-CASS-CEDAR-COLFAX-CUMING-DODGE-DOUGLAS-
FREMONT IA-GAGE-HARRISON IA-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-KNOX-LANCASTER-MADISON-
MILLS IA-MONONA IA-MONTGOMERY IA-NEMAHA-OTOE-PAGE IA-PAWNEE-PIERCE-
PLATTE-POTTAWATTAMIE IA-RICHARDSON-SALINE-SARPY-SAUNDERS-SEWARD-
SHELBY IA-STANTON-THURSTON-WASHINGTON-WAYNE-
1159 AM CDT WED JUN 29 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST
IOWA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A CHANCE FOR SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ACROSS MUCH OF EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST
IOWA. THE MAIN THREAT AREA IS EAST OF A LINE FROM BLOOMFIELD TO
NORFOLK TO LINCOLN TO GENEVA. THE PRIMARY HAZARDS WILL BE LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WINDS. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP AHEAD OF A
COLD FRONT LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.  THE AIR MASS AHEAD OF
THIS COLD FRONT IS VERY UNSTABLE. TEMPERATURES WARMING UP INTO THE
90S THIS AFTERNOON WILL ALLOW FOR RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF
THUNDERSTORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

THE CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO THE AREA FRIDAY NIGHT
THROUGH SUNDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT.

SMITH