Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2002, 5:27 PM CDT for Furnas County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 min. 2 reports 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 17, 2002, 5:27 PM CDT (22:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Furnas County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 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 17, 5:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Bartley, NE | |
| Jun 17, 6:10 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Beaver City, 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -551 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2368 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 172227 SVRGRI NEC065-172330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 526 PM CDT MON JUN 17 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FURNAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 521 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF WILSONVILLE...OR ABOUT 22 MILES EAST OF MCCOOK...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE STORM INCLUDE WILSONVILLE...HOLBROOK...HENDLEY...BEAVER CITY AND HOLLINGER. PEOPLE IN FURNAS 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 4031 10017 4001 10033 4002 9965 4029 9967 GUYER 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 17, 2:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 2:06 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 206 PM CDT MON JUN 17 2002 ...MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE IS FOCUSING ON PERIODS WITH BETTER CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS... NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO TOTALLY DISCOUNT CONVECTION ESPECIALLY IN THE NIGHT THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK...BUT THAT/S NORMALLY THE CASE IN JUNE. TONIGHT LOOKS LIKE IT COULD BE A REPEAT OF LAST NIGHT. SURFACE TROUGH ON A HON-LBF LINE COUPLED WITH S/W INDICATED ON WV SATELLITE OVER NEB PANHANDLE MAY BE ENOUGH TO FIRE THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON. ANY THAT FORM WOULD LIKELY BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD AS THEY ENCOUNTER SOMEWHAT DEEPER MOISTURE AND DEVELOPING LOW LEVEL JET AS THEY MOVE EAST. APPEARS A LULL IN THE ACTION TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY AS UPPER RIDGE AND WARMER MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES BUILD IN. WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY NIGHT APPEAR TO OFFER THE GREATEST CHANCE FOR RAIN/THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS GID CWA. RIDGE WEAKENS AND DRIFTS EAST AS WIDE WESTERN STATES WAVE APPROACHES WEDNESDAY NIGHT. NEXT WAVE TAKES A NORTHERN TRAJECTORY BUT CHASES ANOTHER FRONT ACROSS NEBRASKA LATE SATURDAY. WILL CONTINUE CHANCE FOR RAIN/STORMS SUNDAY AND MONDAY WITH WEAK SURFACE FRONT AND EXPECTED SHORT WAVES ROUNDING THE TOP OF SOUTHWEST UPPER RIDGE. .GID...NONE. SCHURR
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 17, 12:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-181200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1205 PM CDT MON JUN 17 2002 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS TONIGHT... A WEAK DISTURBANCE IN THE MID LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE WILL MOVE WEST TO EAST ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT...ALL WHILE A LEE TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE SHARPENS OVER THE WESTERN SECTIONS OF NEBRASKA AND KANSAS. SOUTH WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO TRANSPORT GULF MOISTURE NORTHWARD INTO THE AREA TODAY...WITH A MODERATELY UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE SETTING UP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS. AS THE MID LEVEL SYSTEM APPROACHES...THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON IN THE WESTERN PARTS OF SOUTH DAKOTA... NEBRASKA AND KANSAS...AND THEN GRADUALLY MOVE SOUTHEAST AS THE EVENING WEARS ON. FURTHER EAST...AN ADDITIONAL BOUT OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE REST OF NEBRASKA AND KANSAS AS A LOW LEVEL JET STRENGTHENS OVERNIGHT. AT THIS TIME...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS APPEAR TO BE THE MOST LIKELY FORMS OF SEVERE WEATHER. AN ISOLATED TORNADO IS ALSO POSSIBLE THIS EVENING...HOWEVER THIS RISK DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE AS GREAT. THE MAIN TIME FRAME FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS WILL LIKELY BE AFTER 8 PM...WITH THE POSSIBILITIES OF SEVERE WEATHER CONTINUING THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF TUESDAY. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS AND SPOTTER GROUPS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE SITUATION THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GUYER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Harlan | 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.