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 Sep 13, 9:40 AM CST, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 1040 AM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 .DISCUSSION... HAVE UPDATED ZONES TO CLEAN UP MORNING WORDING AND END PCPN THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE NRN CWA. CAA WELL UNDERWAY ACROSS THE CWA THIS MORNING. IT APPEARS THE FRONT IS ON THE VERGE OF PASSING THRU FALL CITY THIS HOUR. STIFF NORTHWEST FLOW BEHIND THE FRONT...SO ALSO MADE SOME WIND UPDATES. CLOUDS AND HIGH TEMPS TODAY WILL BE THE BIG CONCERN. SATL PIX SHOWING NARROW WEDGE OF DRIER AIR MOVING IN FROM THE SOUTHWEST...SO IT APPEARS THERE WILL BE A BATTLE BETWEEN STOUT CAA AND AREAS OF INSOLATION. LATEST LAMP METEOGRAMS SUGGEST SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPS...EXCEPT FNB WHERE LOWER 80S DEPICTED. GIVEN AMOUNT OF CLOUD COVER....HAVE DECIDED TO TRIM HIGHS SLIGHTLY OVER THE CWA. DEE && .PREV DISCUSSION... 313 AM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 LATEST WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS UPPER LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROF NOW MOVING INTO THE WRN DAKOTAS WHILE MAIN TROF AXIS REMAINS OVER THE WESTERN CONUS. COLD FRONT CONTINUES TO MAKE STEADY PROGRESS THRU THE CWA THIS MORNING. BANDS OF BROKEN STRATOCU HAVE FORMED BEHIND THE BOUNDARY WHICH SHOULD SCOUR OUT LATER THIS MORNING LEAVING PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES FOR THE DAY. SCATTERED TSTMS ARE LINED UP FROM NORTH CENTRAL NEB BACK TOWARDS THE PANHANDLE WHICH MATCHES UP FAIRLY WELL WITH THE 700MB FRONTOGENESIS FIELD. FORCING LOOKS RATHER MEAGER WITH THE SFC BOUNDARY...SO AM DOUBTFUL IF MUCH PCPN WL OCCUR ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING IN ASSOCIATION WITH THIS FEATURE. AS FOR THE MID LEVEL BOUNDARY...FRONTOGENETIC FORCING IS FORECAST TO WEAKEN WITH TIME AS IT SHIFTS EAST SO THINK THAT TSTMS ONGOING TO OUR WEST SHOULD FALL APART LATER THIS MORNING. WL NEED TO CARRY SMALL POPS AS SOME OF THIS COULD MAINTAIN ITSELF ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA. OTHERWISE...SFC HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN AND MUCH DRIER AND COOLER AIR WILL BE THE MAIN STORY TODAY. YESTERDAYS UPSTREAM HIGHS WERE IN THE 70S WHICH IS IN LINE WITH GIVEN GUIDANCE VALUES. THE EXCEPTION IS IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA WHERE TEMPS MAY WARM TO AROUND 80 BEFORE FROPA. INSTABILITY WILL INCREASE ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND IN AREAS TO OUR SOUTH AHEAD OF THE FRONT. A FEW CELLS MAY POP UP EARLY THIS AFTERNOON IN OUR FAR SOUTHEAST COUNTIES SO WL CARRY A SMALL POP THIS AFTERNOON TO COVER THAT AREA. COOLER AND DRY WEATHER IS EXPECTED THROUGH THURSDAY WITH HIGHS IN THE MID TO UPPER 70S WITH REGION IN ZONAL FLOW. SLIGHT UPPER RIDGING BUILDS IN ON FRIDAY GIVING THE AREA SOUTHERLY FLOW AND TEMPS WL BOOST INTO THE LOWER 80S WITH DRY WX CONTINUING. OF NOTE...THE 00Z NAM INDICATES A BOUNDARY MOVING INTO NERN NEB THURSDAY NIGHT AND DEVELOPS PCPN ALONG THIS. WITH GFS SHOWING NO SUCH THING...WL CONT WITH CONSISTENCY AND GO DRY. NEXT SERIES OF SHORTWAVES ARE SLATED TO EJECT OUT INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS FOR THE WEEKEND AS UPPER TROF DEEPENS OVER THE WESTERN CONUS AND UPPER FLOW BECOMES MORE SWRLY. APPEARS THAT BEST CHANCE FOR TSTMS WILL BE SATURDAY AND GOING FORECAST HAS ALL THIS COVERED SO NO MAJOR CHANGES ARE PLANNED. && .OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. IA...NONE. && GRIFFIS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 1144 AM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-132300- 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- 1144 AM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ROLL ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA...MAINLY SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM HARLAN IOWA TO FAIRBURY. SOME STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON. DEE
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA
1159 AM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005
IAZ079-080-090-091-140000-
FREMONT IA-PAGE IA-MONTGOMERY IA-MILLS IA-
1159 AM CDT TUE SEP 13 2005
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 781 HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 700 PM
CDT...
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHWEST IOWA
MILLS...MONTGOMERY...FREMONT AND PAGE
DEWALDThe Omaha radar (KOAX), 44 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:15 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail up to 1.25 inches in diameter fell for around 10 minutes from the La Platte area to near Offutt AFB.
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