Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2002, 10:12 PM CDT for Howard County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 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 10, 2002, 10:12 PM CDT (03:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2002, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Howard County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:12 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 10, 11:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | St Paul, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 4189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1042 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.7
- Supercell composite
- 13.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 110312 SVRGRI NEC093-110415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1012 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HOWARD COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1115 PM CDT * AT 1007 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF ST. PAUL...OR ABOUT 24 MILES NORTH OF GRAND ISLAND...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CUSHING AT 1020 PM CDT PEOPLE IN NORTHEASTERN HOWARD 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 GOLFBALLS ARE LIKELY. LAT...LON 4135 9859 4117 9858 4112 9829 4137 9831 NNNN 09
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 10, 2:12 PM CDT, 8 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:12 PM CDT, 8 hours before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 212 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2002 FRONTAL MOVEMENT AND ASSOCIATED WEATHER MAIN CONCERN TODAY. 18Z SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS FRONT HAS ENTERED THE NW CWFA. KUEX SHOWS IT BETWEEN KLXN AND KEAR. KUEX ALSO SHOWS A CONVERGENT AREA JUST WEST OF THE RADAR IN FRANKLIN COUNTY. EXPECT STORMS TO FIRE ON THE FRONT OR AS THESE BOUNDARIES MERGE 20Z-21Z. BY THAT TIME CONVECTIVE TEMPS SHOULD BE REACHED. GID CWFA IS IN BETWEEN VERY CAPPED OFF SOUNDING AT KLBF THIS MORNING AND NO CAP AT KOMA. SHOULD BE SUFFICENT TO HOLD STORMS OFF UNTIL EXPLOSIVE DEVELOPMENT CAN TRANSPIRE. PRESSURE RISES BEHIND THE FRONT DECREASING A BIT AND WINDS BECOMING MORE NNE VS NW SUGGESTING WESTERN SIDE OF FRONT SLOWING DOWN. THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH PROGS SHOWING FRONT HANGING UP JUST SOUTH OF CWFA TONIGHT AS LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPS IN KS. THIS SHOULD LEAD TO BETTER LOW LEVEL SHEAR WHICH WILL ENHANCE TORNADO THREAT ALREADY IN EXISTENCE ALONG ALL BOUNDARIES TODAY DUE TO AMOUNT OF INSTABILITY PRESENT...WHICH SHOULD TOP OUT BETWEEN 3 AND 4 KJ/KG. STORMS SHOULD SUSTAIN OVERNIGHT WITH DIFLUENT UPPER FLOW AND FORCING NEAR BOUNDARY. AMOUNT OF MOISTURE WILL BE CONDUCIVE TO VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND SOME TRAINING POSSIBLE LATER TONIGHT IN DIFLUENT THICKNESS AREA AS FRONT LAYS OUT EAST/WEST. WILL NOT ISSUE FFA TONIGHT AS ANTECEDENT CONDITIONS FAIRLY DRY. EXCEPTION WOULD BE PARTS OF MITCHELL COUNTY WHICH RECEIVED 1-2 INCHES OF RAIN THIS MORNING. LIFT AND THUS THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD PERSIST INTO TUES MORNING. BOUNDARY MAY STILL BE HUNG UP IN SE CWFA OR MOVE BACK NORTH IN THE AFTERNOON. EITHER WAY IT APPEARS THAT STORMS COULD FIRE UP AGAIN IN THE AFTERNOON THERE AND EXPAND NORTHWARD OVERNIGHT AS LLJ THROWS MOISTURE BACK NORTH OF FRONT. FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE NEEDED TUES NIGHT IF RAINS PAN OUT TONIGHT AND HVY QPF PROGS OF ETA STILL HAVE A CHANCE TO MATERIALIZE TUES NIGHT. AGAIN...STORMS COULD PERSIST INTO WED MORNING. TEMPS WILL BE TRICKY WITH BOUNDARY AND ROUNDS OF CONVECTION. HAVE TRENDED A BIT TOWARD HIGHER ETA DEW POINTS AND THUS WARMER LOW TEMPERATURES. ALSO HAVE WENT A BIT WARMER IN THE DAYTIME WITH A SLIGHTLY FARTHER NORTHWARD FRONTAL POSITION. HAVE INSERTED A CHANCE FOR TSTMS NW CWFA WED EVENING AS MID LEVEL SHORT WAVE INDUCED SURFACE TROUGH ACROSS NW NEBR ENHANCES MOISTURE CONVERGENCE UNDER COOL TEMPS ALOFT. HAVE ALSO INTRODUCED A CHANCE FOR STORMS SUNDAY NIGHT IN RETURN FLOW AFTER A FEW DAYS OF HIGH PRESSURE AND LOWER HUMIDITIES. .GID...NONE. DROZD
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:22 PM CDT, 5 hours 50 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-111200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 422 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2002 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THIS EVENING ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AND PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THIS EVENING. STORMS ARE EXPECTED ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM ST PAUL NEBRASKA TO PHILLIPSBURG KANSAS. THE STORMS WILL QUICKLY BECOME SEVERE WITH THE PRIMARY THREAT BEING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS...HOWEVER THE THREAT OF TORNADOS EXISTS AS WELL. INDIVIDUAL STORM MOVEMENT WILL BE NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH...WHILE THE ENTIRE STORM AREA GRADUALLY SHIFTS SOUTHEAST THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS AS THE EVENING PROGRESSES. HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THE STORMS THROUGH TONIGHT...AND SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING INTO THE AREA TONIGHT WILL BRING THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND STORM SPOTTERS SHOULD BE READY FOR ACTIVATION THIS EVENING. FAY
Special weather statement, Jun 10, 9:50 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
NEZ039-040-046-061-073-083-110350- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 950 PM CDT MON JUN 10 2002 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 407 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 407 HAS BEEN REPLACED BY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NUMBER 408 WHICH DOES NOT INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...VALLEY...GREELEY...SHERMAN...BUFFALO...PHELPS AND HARLAN COUNTIES. THUS THESE COUNTIES ARE NO LONGER IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. COUNTIES TO THE EAST REMAIN IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 200 AM. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE THROUGH MIDNIGHT. HOWEVER...NO ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. EWALD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton, Merrick | 58 min |
| Jun 10, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall | 38 min |
| Jun 10, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Webster | 39 min |
| Jun 10, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton | 43 min |
| Jun 10, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 55 min |
| Jun 10, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Polk, York | 58 min |
| Jun 10, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton | 47 min |
| Jun 10, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nance | 58 min |
| Jun 10, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Polk, York | 45 min |
| Jun 10, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Clay | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 9:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hamilton | 53 min |
| Jun 10, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick | 61 min |
| Jun 10, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nance | 60 min |
| Jun 11, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nance | 65 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.