Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 164, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2002, 7:24 PM CDT for Buffalo County, Nebraska. It was in force for 66 min. 3 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 19, 2002, 7:24 PM CDT (00:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2002, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 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), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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 19, 7:52 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 62 E | Riverdale, NE | |
| Jun 19, 7:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 M | Kearney Arpt, NE | |
| Jun 19, 8:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 62 E | Poole, 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 19, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 1728 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 15.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 200024 SVRGRI NEC019-200130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 725 PM CDT WED JUN 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BUFFALO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 724 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF ELM CREEK...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF LEXINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE STORM INCLUDE ELM CREEK...AMHERST...ODESSA...RIVERDALE...KEARNEY...AND GIBBON. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT THOSE TRAVELING ON INTERSTATE 80 IN SOUTHERN BUFFALO COUNTY. PEOPLE IN 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 GOLFBALLS ARE LIKELY. LAT...LON 4103 9938 4069 9941 4070 9873 4103 9876 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 19, 3:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 3:16 PM CDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 316 PM CDT WED JUN 19 2002 ...TSTMS TONIGHT ARE THE MAIN CONCERN... COLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY AS OF 19Z WAS LOCATED FROM ROUGHLY ONEIL TO NORTH PLATTE...AND IMPERIAL NEBRASKA TO GOODLAND KANSAS. SATELLITE SHOWS CU FIELD HAS DEVELOPED ALONG BOUNDARY ON EDGE OF CAP AROUND LBF AND CLOUD LINE EXTENDED NORTHEAST INTO NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. 18Z SOUNDING FROM LBF CONTINUES TO INDICATE CAP IN PLACE WITH WARM H7 TEMP OF 16C. HOWEVER FURTHER WEST...H7 TEMPS ON DENVER SOUNDING HAVE COOLED FROM 15C TO 12C. SHORTWAVE TROF WILL CONTINUE TO TRANSLATE ACROSS THE DAKOTAS THIS EVENING WITH COOL FRONT CONTINUING TO ADVANCE SOUTHEAST INTO THE CWA AND GRADUAL STALL. H7 THERMAL TROF PROGGED TO ARRIVE THIS EVENING WITH CAP WEAKENING. EXPECT TSTMS TO FIRE ALONG BOUNDARY AND AGREE WITH LBF DISCUSSION OF STORMS BECOMING LINEAR THIS EVENING WITH PRIMARY SVR WEATHER THREAT OF WIND/HAIL. FRONT STALLS ACROSS THE CWA TONIGHT AND LLVL JET WILL ENHANCE CONVECTION OVERNIGHT AND EXPECT DECENT RAINFALL ACROSS MUCH OF THE CWA. FRONTAL PLACEMENT AND LATEST TRENDS CONTINUE TO INDICATE NEBRASKA COUNTIES STAND BEST POTENTIAL FOR STORMS TONIGHT AND WILL WORD AS TSTMS DEVELOPING AND MAINTAIN LIKELY WORDING FURTHER SOUTH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE INTO THURSDAY MORNING WITH ADDITIONAL REDEVELOPMENT DURING THE DAY/EARLY NIGHT DEPENDING UPON FRONTAL POSITION...WHICH DEPENDS ON CONVECTION TONIGHT. WILL MAINTAIN 30/40 POPS THURS/THURS NIGHT. FRONT WASHES/LIFTS BY FRIDAY WITH DRY WEATHER/WARM/BREEZY CONDITIONS RETURNING INTO THE WEEKEND. DRY WEATHER WILL BE MAINTAINED INTO NEXT WEEK UNTIL TUESDAY NIGHT WHEN NEXT FRONT APPROACHES. THANKS FOR THE COORDINATION OAX...LBF...GLD. .GID...NONE. FAY
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 19, 6:34 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
634 PM CDT WED JUN 19 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0627 PM 2 W ELWOOD NE .75 INCH HAIL
06/19/02 GOSPER REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Phelps | 47 min |
| Jun 19, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo | 47 min |
| Jun 19, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Howard | 56 min |
| Jun 19, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick, Nance | 63 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.