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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Hastings, NE

June 2, 2002Buffalo County, Kearney County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2002, 9:45 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Kearney County, Nebraska. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report 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, 9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2002, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Hastings, NE
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Buffalo County, NE, Kearney County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:49 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, 10:10 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 61 E	Axtell, 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 138 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

762 
WUUS53 KGID 030245
SVRGRI
NEC019-099-030330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
944 PM CDT SUN JUN 2 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BUFFALO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
  KEARNEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 942 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF ODESSA...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF KEARNEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE STORM INCLUDE KEARNEY...
NORMAN...HEARTWELL...GIBBON AND SHELTON.

THIS WARNING ALSO INCLUDES INTERSTATE 80 FROM MILE MARKERS 263 TO 
290.

PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN BUFFALO AND KEARNEY COUNTIES 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.  VISIBILITIES NEAR ZERO IN BLOWING DUST IS ALSO 
LIKELY.

LAT...LON 4036 9920 4035 9875 4086 9873 4083 9940
          4070 9938 4066 9921

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 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 2:00 PM CDT, 7 hours 45 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

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, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GID	Phelps	44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.