Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2002, 10:37 AM CDT for Harlan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 53 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 15, 2002, 10:37 AM CDT (15:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2002, 11:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Harlan County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:40 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 15, 11:00 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Mascot, 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 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2065 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 151537 SVRGRI NEC083-151630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1036 AM CDT SAT JUN 15 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HARLAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1130 AM CDT * AT 1035 AM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL 12 MILES NORTH OF STAMFORD...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOLDREGE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE STORM INCLUDE RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL HARLAN COUNTY. PEOPLE IN HARLAN COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS. LAT...LON 4034 9964 4001 9961 4002 9922 4032 9920 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 15, 2:45 AM CDT, 7 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:45 AM CDT, 7 hours 52 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 245 AM CDT SAT JUN 15 2002 PRECIP CHANCES MAIN CONCERN FOR THIS FORECAST PACKAGE. SATELLITE/ANALYSES SHOWED NW/SE JET ACROSS UPPER MIDWEST WITH A COUPLE OF THUNDERSTORM CLUSTERS ACROSS THE DAKOTAS. A WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY ACROSS SDAK SHOULD BE FORTIFIED AND PUSHED SOUTHWARD AS A RESULT TODAY. MEANWHILE...A COUPLE OF H7 WAVES OVER THE ROCKIES WILL BE COMING OVER THE WRN US RIDGE AND SUPPLIED ADDITIONAL ENERGY BY GREAT BASIN JET. MOISTURE IS QUITE LIMITED BUT MODELS PERSIST IN GENERATING PCPN OVER MUCH OF THE CWFA TODAY. BELIEVE THE LATTER MENTIONED SYSTEM HAS THE BETTER DYNAMICS AND MOISTURE TO WORK WITH. ADDITIONALLY...PROGGED LAPSE RATES APPEAR BEST IN THE WEST THIS AFTERNOON. THEREFORE WILL ADD A SLGT CHC POP TO THE WRN CWFA TODAY...BUT DAY SHIFT SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON NORTHERN STREAM ACTIVITY. APPEARS THAT MOST OF THE MID LEVEL ENERGY WILL BE DOWNSTREAM OF GID CWFA BY TONIGHT...ALTHOUGH A WEAK BOUNDARY MAY REMAIN. WITH BEST CONVECTION FOCUSED TO THE SOUTH...WILL REMOVE THUNDER MENTION HERE TONIGHT. NEXT WAVE...ALTHOUGH HARD TO TIME IN NW FLOW...SHOULD AFFECT AREA BEGINNING SUNDAY AFTERNOON AS PER PREVIOUS FORECAST. PERHAPS THERE WILL BE A BIT MORE MOISTURE TO WORK WITH BY THEN. AGREE WITH PREVIOUS FORECAST THAT BEST CHANCE FIGURES TO BE SUNDAY NIGHT AS COLD FRONT PUSHES THROUGH. MAY BE SOME LINGERING SHOWERS SE MONDAY MORNING BUT WILL LET NEXT SHIFT REFINE THIS WORDING. TEMPERATURES SHOULD BE ABLE TO WARM TO NEAR FRIDAYS LEVELS WITH A SLIGHTLY WARMER START. HOWEVER...BACKDOOR FRONT IN THE NORTHEAST AND INCREASING CLOUDS OVER THE SW MAY HOLD TEMPS A BIT IN CHECK. LOWER 80S IN GENERAL. SIMILAR MAX TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS...WHILE SOME MODERATION FROM CHILLY OVERNIGHT LOWS IS EXPECTED AS MOISTURE WORKS BACK INTO THE AREA. WILL CONTINUE CHANCES FOR TSTMS WEDNESDAY/NIGHT WITH DECENT FRONT COMING THROUGH AREA. WILL LEAVE THU/FRI DRY FOR NOW ALTHOUGH MRF HINTING AT FLATTENING UPPER FLOW AND A POSSIBLE STALLING OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY. .GID...NONE. DROZD
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 4:38 AM CDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-161200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 438 AM CDT SAT JUN 15 2002 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS OR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS MORNING AND EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WEST OF HIGHWAY 183. HOWEVER...DUE TO LIMITED MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY...THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. DROZD
Local storm report, Jun 15, 7:04 AM CDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
704 AM CDT SAT JUN 15 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0657 AM 2 N PALCO KS .75 INCH HAIL
06/15/02 ROOKS REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.Special weather statement, Jun 15, 10:26 AM CDT, 11 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-161200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1026 AM CDT SAT JUN 15 2002 ......SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS OR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... THOUGH SCATTERED STRONG AND OCCASIONALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NOTED IN SOME AREAS TODAY...THE NEED FOR SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED. THUNDERSTORMS WILL GENERALLY BE WEST OF AN ORD NEBRASKA...TO HASTINGS...TO BELOIT KANSAS LINE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. ISOLATED STRONGER STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL TO SIZE OF NICKELS...AND LOCALLY STRONG WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH. DUE TO THE LIMITED INSTABILITY AND WIND FIELDS...THE RISK FOR TORNADOES APPEARS SMALL...THUS THE NEED FOR SPOTTERS IS NOT EXPECTED. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EAST AND SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH...AND SHOULD DIMINISH IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY BY EARLY THIS EVENING. MORITZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 10:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas, Gosper | 62 min |
| Jun 15, 11:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phelps | 40 min |
| Jun 15, 11:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phelps | 32 min |
| Jun 15, 12:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan | 47 min |
| Jun 15, 12:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Furnas | 57 min |
| Jun 15, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin | 61 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.