Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2002, 9:16 PM CDT for Phelps County, Nebraska. It was in force for 44 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2002, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Phelps County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 9:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 E | Holdrege, NE | |
| Jun 2, 9:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 E | Funk, NE | |
| Jun 2, 9:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 E | Wilcox, NE |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 121 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2050 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2437 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
413 WUUS53 KGID 030216 SVRGRI NEC137-030300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 916 PM CDT SUN JUN 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PHELPS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 914 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LOOMIS...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOLDREGE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HOLDREGE AT 920 PM CDT FUNK AT 925 PM CDT PEOPLE IN PHELPS COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. LAT...LON 4035 9963 4034 9920 4063 9919 4067 9961 NNNN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 2, 2:00 PM CDT, 7 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:00 PM CDT, 7 hours 16 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 200 PM CDT SUN JUN 2 2002 TSRA CHCS WL RMN THE CONCERN THRU TUE WITH SFC FRONT GRADUALLY PROGRESSING SWD AS RIDGE OVR THE CNTRL CONUS IS FLATTENED. 50H HTS HAVE FALLEN ABOUT 40 M OVR THE PAST 24 HRS WITH 500 MB TEMPS A CPL DEGREES COOLER OVR NM/CO/WY. OTHERWISE...MID LVL TEMPS WHICH MAINTAINED CONTROL OF SAT EVE CONVECTION...RMN WARM OVR THE CNTRL PLNS. 18Z SFC LOW WAS CNTRD JUST N OF HLC WITH WARM FRONT ANALYZED ACRS THE NRN GID CWA. DP AXIS WAS POINTING INTO THE SPC MOD RISK AREA OVR NERN NEB. META PROGS 50-55KT AT 850 MB BY 06Z WITH DECENT FORCING ALNG THE WARM/STATIONARY FRONT OVR CNTRL NEB. LLVL JET ORIENTATION IS NOT AS GOOD AS LAST EVE WHEN SOME SHRA/TSRA BUBBLED OVR THE AREA...BUT WITH SOME LGT RADAR RTNS ALREADY IND OVR THE SWRN CWA AND NR THE NRN PERIMETER ...SLGT CHC TO CHC TSRA WL BE REINSERTED FOR TNGT. TSRA CHC FOR LATE MON AFTN/EVE LK BTR...AS DOES THE SVR THREAT WITH FRONT SOMEWHERE NR THE KS/NEB BRDR...UNDR MUCH WEAKER CAP. COOLER TEMPS AND QUICKER DRY FORECAST AS PER PREVIOUS MID WEEK FORECAST LK FINE. MAIN ALTERATIONS TO THE WEEKS FORECAST WL BE A MORE LIBERAL MODERATION OF TEMPS FOR LATE WEEK AS SOME RIDGING IS EXPECTED/PROGGED IN ADVN OF NXT TROF. UKMO/CANADIAN/MRF ARE IN GENL AGRMT WITH THE APPRCH OF THAT FEATURE BY THE WEEKEND...SO A RA MENTION WL BE ADDED FOR DAYS 6 AND 7. .GID...NONE. 09
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 3:21 PM CDT, 5 hours 55 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-030000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 321 PM CDT SUN JUN 2 2002 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TONIGHT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA OR NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... DAYTIME HEATING HAS ALLOWED THE AREA TO BECOME QUITE UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON. IN THE MEANTIME...SOUTHERLY FLOW HAS FORCED ADDITIONAL LOW LEVEL MOISTURE INTO THE PLAINS...HELPING TO FURTHER DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE. AS SURFACE LOW PRESSURE MOVES ACROSS SOUTHERN NEBRASKA... WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO FORM THIS EVENING. A FEW STORMS MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTY WINDS. THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP THOUGH...ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME VERY ORGANIZED AS WARM MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES HELP TO INHIBIT THUNDERSTORM GROWTH...THUS SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY APPEARS TO BE MAINLY FOR AREAS NORTH OF I-80 THIS EVENING...WHILE ISOLATED ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. DEE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 44 min |
| Jun 2, 8:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper | 38 min |
| Jun 2, 9:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo, Kearney | 45 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.