An upper level disturbance moving across Nebraska helped thunderstorm development ahead of a cold front. There were isolated reports of severe weather with these storms across the eastern Nebraska and southwest Iowa region, including one tornado near Uehling Nebraska.
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An upper level disturbance moving across Nebraska helped thunderstorm development ahead of a cold front. There were isolated reports of severe weather with these storms across the eastern Nebraska and southwest Iowa region, including one tornado near Uehling Nebraska.
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 6, 1:57 PM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 257 PM CDT THU SEP 6 2007 .DISCUSSION... PRIMARY FORECAST CONCERN IS CONVECTION TONIGHT AND POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON SHOWED SHORTWAVE TROUGH MOVING EAST INTO WRN NE AND THE WRN DKTS. SOME HIGH LEVEL MOISTURE FROM REMNANTS OF HENRIETTE WERE STREAMING TOWARD THE NE/KS BORDER. SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWED A CDFNT LOCATED FROM NRN MN TO ERN SD AND WRN KS. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...DEWPOINTS WERE IN THE UPPER 60S AND LOWER 70S. FIRST LINE OF STORMS WAS ALREADY ADVANCING INTO WRN PARTS OF NERN NE. EXPECT MORE STORMS TO DEVELOP OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. THERE SHOULD BE SOME SEVERE WEATHER...BUT INSTABILITY AND SHEAR ARE NOT OVERLY HIGH. LOW LEVEL JET DOES INCREASE SOME THIS EVENING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE. SHORTWAVE WILL CONTINUE TO PROGRESS EAST ACROSS THE AREA. BOTH THE 12Z NAM AND 12Z GFS SUGGESTED THE FRONT...SHORTWAVE AND MOST OF THE PCPN WOULD BE EAST OF OUR FORECAST AREA BY 12Z. BASED ON TIMING OF FEATURE BASED ON SATELLITE...THIS SEEMED REASONABLE... AND HAVE ENDED PCPN IN WRN ZONES BY AROUND 09Z. EXPECT LOWS IN THE UPPER 50S WEST TO MID 60S EAST. A FAIRLY DECENT PRESSURE GRADIENT THE FIRST HALF OF FRIDAY SHOULD HELP KEEP WINDS UP... BUT THIS RELAXES IN THE AFTERNOON AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN. FRIDAY NIGHT SHOULD BE DRY AND COOL WITH LOWS MAINLY IN THE 50S. A SYSTEM WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE NRN PLAINS WITH PCPN LATE FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY. DID INCLUDE A CHANCE OF PCPN ACROSS NERN NE ON SATURDAY...BUT LEFT IT OUT FOR THE SOUTH. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF PCPN THROUGH THE WEEKEND OVER PARTS OF THE AREA...BUT CHANCES SEEM MUCH BETTER SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY. ISENTROPIC LIFT INCREASES AS TROUGH APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. 12Z GFS MIGHT BE A LITTLE TOO AGGRESSIVE WITH PCPN AMOUNTS IN THE PERIOD FROM 06Z MONDAY TO 18Z MONDAY. FARTHER OUT...IT LOOKS LIKE WE WILL STILL HAVE A CHANGE IN THE LARGE SCALE PATTERN WITH COOLER TEMPERATURES. LARGE RIDGE AT 500 MB WILL REMAIN OVER THE NERN PACIFIC INTO NWRN CANADA...WHILE TROUGHINESS DOMINATES FROM CANADA INTO THE NORTH PLAINS...CNTRL PLAINS AND GREAT LAKES. HAVE HIGHS MAINLY IN THE 70S FROM MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...WITH LOWS MOSTLY IN THE UPPER 40S AND 50S. && .AVIATION... FOR TAF SITES OFK/OMA/LNK SRLY FLOW WL CONT TO KEEP MVFR CEILINGS ACROSS ALL 3 TAF SITES THRU 03Z OR SO. CONVECTION ALONG CDFNT WL SLIDE EWD THRU 06Z AND CIGS SHOULD REMAIN IN THE MVFR CATEGORY WITH SOME CB IN ASSOCIATION WITH TSTMS. POST FRONT...EXPECT SCT-BKN MVFR STRATUS THRU 12Z WITH NORTHWEST WINDS. CEILINGS SHOULD SCATTER OUT ALL TOGETHER BY MID MORNING FRIDAY. && .OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. IA...NONE. && DISCUSSION...MILLER AVIATION...GRIFFIS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 1144 AM CDT THU SEP 6 2007 IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-070645- MONONA-HARRISON-SHELBY-POTTAWATTAMIE-MILLS-MONTGOMERY-FREMONT- PAGE-KNOX-CEDAR-THURSTON-ANTELOPE-PIERCE-WAYNE-BOONE-MADISON- STANTON-CUMING-BURT-PLATTE-COLFAX-DODGE-WASHINGTON-BUTLER- SAUNDERS-DOUGLAS-SARPY-SEWARD-LANCASTER-CASS-OTOE-SALINE- JEFFERSON-GAGE-JOHNSON-NEMAHA-PAWNEE-RICHARDSON- 1144 AM CDT THU SEP 6 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST IOWA...WEST CENTRAL IOWA...EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA...NORTHEAST NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY BEGINNING ACROSS NORTHEAST NEBRASKA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL SPREAD EAST ACROSS THE REST OF THE OUTLOOK AREA THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE PRIMARY HAZARDS...HOWEVER AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION...HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO LIKELY WITH THE STORMS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG A COLD FRONT ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL NEBRASKA THIS AFTERNOON. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE EAST INTO THE CENTRAL PLAINS LATER TODAY AND AID IN RAPID THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE SURFACE COLD FRONT AS BOTH FEATURES MOVE EAST ACROSS NEBRASKA AND IOWA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES RETURN OVER THE WEEKEND AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA LATE SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING OVER EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. GRIFFIS
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 42 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:28 UTC.
1 tornado, 1 lightning, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
An ef0 tornado started about 3 miles south of Uehling around 527 pm. The tornado tracked to the north northeast damaging some farm buildings, trees and hay stacks. The tornado ended about 1 mile east of uehling around 532 pm.
Lightning struck the Fremont County Sheriff's Department communication tower causing severe damage to nearly everthing electrical in the building. Total damage to repair or replace the items was estimated at around $100,000.
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