Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2002, 4:54 PM CDT for Merrick County, Nebraska. It was in force for 66 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2002, 4:54 PM CDT (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Merrick County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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 12, 5:13 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Clarks, 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.
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 12, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 2034 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.5
- Supercell composite
- -2.4
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 12, 4:10 PM CDT, 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 4:10 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 410 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002 ...FORECAST CONCERN IS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING... SHORT AFD THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO ONGOING CONVECTION. SURFACE ANALYSIS HAS FRONTAL BOUNDARY CUTTING ACROSS NEB...BASICALLY FROM JUST SOUTH OF OMAHA WESTWARD. BOUNDARY WILL BE THE FOCAL POINT FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN AN ALREADY MOIST AND UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT. LATEST COORDINATION WITH SPC INDICATES NEW TOR WATCH #421...TO REPLACE OLD SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #417...GOES THROUGH 9 PM. NEW WATCH COVERS NEB CWA FOR NOW FROM VALLEY COUNTY TO FRANKLIN...AND AREAS EASTWARD. MODELS DO SUGGEST MID LEVEL STEERING SHOULD KICK FRONT OUT EVENTUALLY. .GID...NONE. DEE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 12, 1:04 PM CDT, 3 hours 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
104 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1225 PM 8 NNE AXTELL NE 1 INCH HAIL
06/12/02 KEARNEY REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.Local storm report, Jun 12, 1:58 PM CDT, 2 hours 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
158 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0125 PM 3 SW GLADE KS TORNADO
06/12/02 PHILLIPS REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Jun 12, 2:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
205 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0121 PM 9 NW STOCKTON KS TORNADO
06/12/02 ROOKS REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, Jun 12, 2:12 PM CDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
212 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1245 PM 4 W NEWARK NE 1 INCH HAIL
06/12/02 KEARNEY REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.Local storm report, Jun 12, 3:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
315 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0310 PM 8 NE NELSON NE .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/02 NUCKOLLS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.Local storm report, Jun 12, 3:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
352 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0339 PM 10 S PLAINVILLE KS TORNADO
06/12/02 ROOKS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 12:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Kearney | 59 min |
| Jun 12, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Webster | 64 min |
| Jun 12, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Thayer | 59 min |
| Jun 12, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nance | 56 min |
| Jun 12, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Polk | 65 min |
| Jun 12, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Polk | 49 min |
| Jun 12, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | York | 59 min |
| Jun 12, 6:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Mitchell | 30 min |
| Jun 12, 6:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Jewell | 52 min |
| Jun 12, 1:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 44 min |
| Jun 12, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Rooks | 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.