Northeast winds briefly gusted to around 30 mph in the Lincoln as outflow from a departing area of showers along the Missouri River aided in increasing winds behind a weak front. The winds flipped an inflatable bounce house causing minor injuries to a child in Lincoln.
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Northeast winds briefly gusted to around 30 mph in the Lincoln as outflow from a departing area of showers along the Missouri River aided in increasing winds behind a weak front. The winds flipped an inflatable bounce house causing minor injuries to a child in Lincoln.
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 25, 2:14 AM CST, 10 hours 46 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 314 AM CDT SAT SEP 25 2010 .DISCUSSION... MAIN CONCERN IN THE SHORT TERM IS COVERAGE/CHANCE OF PCPN TODAY AND INTO THIS EVENING. SOME FOG AND PATCHY DRIZZLE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT AND INTO SUNDAY MORNING. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY EARLY THIS MORNING SHOWED A SHORTWAVE TROUGH TO OUR WEST. FLOW HAD AMPLIFIED SOMEWHAT SINCE 00Z...AS 500 MB RIDGE CONTINUED TO BUILD AND HEIGHTS WERE FALLING ACROSS THE PLAINS. TSTMS ARE ONGOING AS OF 08Z. THEY STARTED OUT FAIRLY ISOLATED A LITTLE BEFORE 04Z IN OUR FAR WRN ZONES. STORMS WERE OCCURRING WITH STRONG ISENTROPIC UPGLIDE IN THE 305-310K LAYER...ON NOSE OF A 40-50 KT LOW LEVEL JET. SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWED AN OCCLUDED FRONT OR SURFACE TROF EXTENDING SWD FROM THE DKTS INTO LOW PRES OVER SWRN NE. THIS LOW WILL MOVE EWD/SEWD TO NEAR THE SERN NE/NERN KS BORDER AREA BY EARLY THIS AFTN AND SURFACE TROF WILL MOVE EWD INTO ERN NE. PCPN SHOULD CONTINUE THIS MORNING...WITH ACTIVITY EXPECTED TO TREND MORE TO AREAS EAST OF WIND SHIFT THIS AFTN. TEMPS WILL BE HELD DOWN FOR MOST AREAS DUE TO CLOUDS AND PCPN. FAR SWRN COUNTIES COULD SEE SOME LOWER 70S...BUT REST OF THE AREA LIKELY TO STAY IN THE 60S. SOME ISOLD LIGHT RAIN OR SHOWERS COULD OCCUR THIS EVENING...BUT THE CHANCES FOR MEASURABLE PCPN SEEM LOW. HIGH PRES AT THE SURFACE WILL BUILD IN FOR TONIGHT AND ADDED MENTION OF PATCHY FOG. MOST SPOTS TONIGHT SHOULD DROP INTO THE LOWER AND MID 40S. PATCHY DRIZZLE IS POSSIBLE LATER TONIGHT. DID NOT INCLUDE THIS INTO SUNDAY MORNING JUST YET...BUT MAY NEED TO WITH LATER FORECASTS. OTHERWISE...NOT MUCH CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS FORECAST. NORTHWEST FLOW WILL DOMINATE AT 500 MB DURING THE EARLY AND MID PART OF THE WEEK WITH RIDGING EXPANDING INTO THE CNTRL AND SRN PLAINS BY THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. HEIGHTS ARE FAIRLY HIGH...AND WOULD SUGGEST A WARM SCENARIO. BUT FAIRLY COOL HIGH PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE WILL PROBABLY LIMIT THE WARMING EXCEPT ON WEDNESDAY. SOME 80S APPEAR POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY. && .AVIATION... TAF SITES KOFK/KOMA/KLNK 06Z TAFS SYNOPSIS...AREA OF TSRA MOVING SEWD OVER ERN NEB THIS MORNING ASSOC WITH WARM FRONT EXTENDING FM SFC LOW CENTERED IN CNTRL NEB. ADDITIONAL CLUSTER OF TSRA OVER ERN SD ALONG COLD FRONT WAS MOVING SE. AVN CONCERNS PRETTY MUCH FOCUSED ON EARLY PD CONVECTION ACTIVITY...THEN MVFR CIGS SETTLING IN. HAVE INCLUDED TEMPO GROUPS FOR ALL TERMINALS THRU ABOUT 14Z. AFT 14Z...WARM AIR ADVECTION THRU 5KFT LYR INCREASES THIS AFTN AND EXPECT MVFR CIGS WILL BE PREVALENT AT ALL SITES THRU 26/00Z. THEREAFTER...DRIER AIRMASS LOWER LYRS FILTERS INTO REGION AND SHOULD RESULT IN VFR CONDITIONS THE REST OF THE FCST PD. && .OAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NE...NONE. IA...NONE. && DISCUSSION...MILLER AVIATION...DEE
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 1152 AM CDT SAT SEP 25 2010 IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-260700- 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- 1152 AM CDT SAT SEP 25 2010 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 ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER EXTREME EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA MAINLY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. MINOR FLOODING WILL OCCUR ON THE MISSOURI RIVER AROUND BROWNVILLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY FLOODING IS POSSIBLE ON THE MISSOURI RIVER FROM NEBRASKA CITY DOWNSTREAM TO RULO SUNDAY INTO TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT. FOBERT
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NEBRASKA 812 AM CDT SAT SEP 25 2010 IAZ043-251400- MONONA IA- 812 AM CDT SAT SEP 25 2010 ...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR NORTHERN MONONA COUNTY UNTIL 900 AM CDT... AT 805 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR SALIX...OR 10 MILES SOUTH OF SIOUX CITY... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NORTHERN PORTIONS OF MONONA COUNTY. LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WHITING... UTE... KENNEBEC... RODNEY... CASTANA... MAPLETON... TORRENTIAL RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES...IS ALSO LIKELY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ON A FLOODED ROADWAY. FOBERT
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Northeast winds briefly gusted to around 30 mph in the Lincoln area flipping an inflatable bounce house which knocked over a light pole and the one child in the house fell about 10 feet to the ground bruising his arm.
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