Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2002, 7:13 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 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 6, 2002, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Buffalo County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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 6, 7:40 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Ravenna, 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 319 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3493 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 070013 SVRGRI NEC019-070100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 712 PM CDT THU JUN 6 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BUFFALO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 711 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF POOLE...OR ABOUT 22 MILES NORTH OF KEARNEY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... POOLE AT 725 PM CDT RAVENNA AT 720 PM CDT PEOPLE IN NORTHERN BUFFALO COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF NICKELS ARE POSSIBLE. LAT...LON 4104 9941 4084 9939 4083 9875 4103 9874 NNNN GURNEY
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 6, 2:44 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 2:44 PM CDT, 4 hours 29 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 244 PM CDT THU JUN 6 2002 ...FORECAST CHALLENGE WILL BE TIMING SMALL PRECIP CHANCES THROUGH SUNDAY AND THEN INCREASING CHANCES INTO MONDAY... SURFACE PLOT AT NOON HAD TROUGH IN WESTERN SDAK AND NEB WITH WIND SHIFT AND DEWPTS IN THE 40S BEHIND TROUGH AND 50S AHEAD. 12Z UPPER AIR...SATELLITE AND PROFILERS HAVE 700 WAVE MOVING OUR WAY BUT STILL WEST OF MRR AND RWD PROFILER SITES AT 17Z. SOME AC ASSOCIATED WITH WAVE NOW ENTERING CWA. SURFACE TEMPS RUNNING ABOUT TEN DEGREES HIGHER THAN YESTERDAY. BEST FORCING STILL WELL NORTH WITH EMBEDDED WAVES MOVING QUICKLY ALONG ZONAL FLOW AFFECTING THE DAKOTAS AND MINNESOTA. THIS LOOKS TO BE THE CASE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. FRIDAY NIGHT PRECIP CHANCES LOOK BEST IN NORTHERN CWA CLOSER TO FRONT. AVN HAS COME INTO LINE WITH ETA AS FAR AS PUTTING FRONT FROM NE TO SW NEB WITH LITTLE MOVEMENT FOR 48 HOURS WHICH SOUNDS FAMILIAR TO A WEEK AGO. INITIAL ACTIVITY STILL TO FIRE WELL NORTH BUT COULD GET AN MCS OVERNIGHT AND DEPENDING WHERE IT INITIATES IT MAY CLIP NORTHERN AND EASTERN CWA. MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES LOOK TO INCREASE MORE ON SATURDAY WITH AVN AND ETA DEPICTING 15 OR 16C AT 700 MB. THUS WILL LEAVE SAT NIGHT DRY WITH ONLY A STRAY TSTM AT MOST WHICH AGAIN WAS SIMILAR TO A WEEK AGO. WILL INTRODUCE POPS IN AGAIN SUN AFTN/EVENING WITH IMPULSES EJECTING AHEAD OF MAIN UPPER TROUGH AND SFC BOUNDARY IN AREA. MONDAY STILL LOOKING PROBABLE FOR SEVERE OUTBREAK IN THE PLAINS BUT LOCATION TOUGH TO TELL AS IT MAY COME ACROSS OUR AREA DURING THE MORNING RATHER THAN AFTERNOON. MODELS CONSISTENT IN LIFTING WAVE OUT RAPIDLY AFTER THAT SO WILL KEEP REST OF FORECAST DRY WITH WARMING TREND AS RIDGING TO RE-ESTABLISH ITSELF OVER THE HIGH AND CENTRAL PLAINS BY NEXT THURS ACCORDING TO NCEP ENSEMBLE. .GID...NONE. EWALD
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 5:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-071200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 507 PM CDT THU JUN 6 2002 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING ACROSS PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA BUT SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED IN NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM ALONG A COLD FRONT THIS EVENING MAINLY NORTHWEST OF A LINE FROM GREELEY TO HOLDREGE. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS APPEARS TO BE THUNDERSTORM DOWNBURST WINDS ALTHOUGH LARGE HAIL COULD ALSO OCCUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD DISSIPATE SHORTLY AFTER DARK. DROZD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Kearney | 44 min |
| Jun 7, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Valley | 63 min |
| Jun 7, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Valley | 60 min |
| Jun 7, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Valley | 53 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2002Every 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.