Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 228, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2002, 1:49 AM CDT for Kearney County, Nebraska. It was in force for 41 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
- Aug 22, 2002, 1:49 AM CDT (06:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2002, 2:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kearney County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 1:55 AM CDT | Hail 1 | Axtell, 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 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 508 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2396 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
637 WUUS53 KGID 220649 SVRGRI NEC099-220730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 149 AM CDT THU AUG 22 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KEARNEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 230 AM CDT * AT 144 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES WEST OF AXTELL...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF HOLDREGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... AXTELL AT 155 AM CDT MINDEN AT 210 AM CDT NORMAN AT 215 AM CDT PEOPLE IN KEARNEY 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 QUARTERS ARE LIKELY. LAT...LON 4056 9916 4036 9917 4047 9876 4069 9886 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 Aug 21, 2:05 PM CDT, 11 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 21, 2:05 PM CDT, 11 hours 44 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 205 PM CDT WED AUG 21 2002 ...FORECAST CONCERN TO BE CHANCE OF RAIN NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS... EXTENSIVE CLOUD DECK ACROSS MUCH OF THE CWA KEPT TEMPERATURES FROM RISING EARLIER BUT WARMUP OCCURRING QUICKLY ACCORDING TO 18Z OBSERVATIONS. LOW PRESSURE STILL SITTING OVER SOUTHERN SDAK BETWEEN PIR AND SFD. TROUGH EXTENDS SOUTH TO NEAR BBW TO BETWEEN HLC AND MCK AND CONTINUES SOUTH. DEWPOINTS DROP TO THE MID 50S TO THE WEST OF THE TROUGH AND MID 40S AROUND CDR. MEANWHILE 70 DEWPOINT LINE HAS A WESTERN EXTENT OF ODX TO JYR TO NEAR RSL WITH THE BEST MOISTURE POOLING WHERE NE/IA/KS/MO MEET. UPPER AIR ANALYSIS AT 12Z SHOWED NEXT SHORTWAVE APPROACHING FROM WEST AND WAS JUST EAST OF DEN AND ABQ AT 700 MB. 17Z PROFILER NETWORK AT THAT LEVEL PUT THE WAVE THROUGH MBW AND PLT ALTHOUGH WINDS WERE LIGHT. ALSO HAD A 700 WARM LAYER...13 TO 15C...IN PLACE FROM DDC TO LBF. PLENTY OF MOISTURE IN PLACE OVER CWA AT ALL SIGNIFICANT LEVELS. 14C 850 DEWPOINT AREA ALSO EXTENDED FROM WEST OF LBF TO DDC AND THEN NORTH AND EAST FROM THERE. MESO ETA WANTING TO DROP SURFACE LOW TO NEAR BBW BY 18Z HASNT MATERIALIZED AS NOTED ABOVE. SURFACE TROUGH HAS MOVED A LITTLE EAST TODAY. IF IT WOULD BLAST THROUGH CWA IT WOULD END THE RAIN CHANCE QUICKLY BUT DO NOT EXPECT THAT TO HAPPEN WITH SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. QUESTION THEN BECOMES LOCATION OF BOUNDARY NEXT 48 HOURS. WITH SOME MOVEMENT CURRENTLY AND APPROACHING WAVE...THINK IT SHOULD CONTINUE INTO THE CWA OVERNIGHT. EXPECT THUNDERSTORMS OF SCATTERED NATURE EARLY AND THEN MAY BE A LITTLE MORE WIDESPREAD OVERNIGHT. BETTER PARAMETERS SEEM TO BE EAST OF CWA AS FAR AS WIDESPREAD RAIN GOES. PRECIPITABLE WATER LOOKS TO RANGE FROM 1.4 IN WESTERN CWA TO 2 IN EASTERN NEB. WARM ADVECTION DID NOT LOOK THAT IMPRESSIVE OVER CWA ACCORDING TO MESOETA TEMP ADVECTION AND ISENTROPIC CHARTS. ALSO WE APPEAR TO BE IN RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF JET BUT IT IS NOT THAT STRONG ACCORDING TO PROFILERS AND AGAIN WOULD HAVE MORE OF AN AFFECT TO OUR NORTHEAST. TIME/HEIGHT SERIES OF OMEGA SHOWED VERY WEAK LIFT OVERALL BEARING OUT WEAK LOW LEVEL WARM ADVECTION AND WEAK UPPER FORCING. OVERALL PLAN TO KEEP NIGHTTIME POPS GOING NEXT TWO OR THREE NIGHTS WITH SURFACE BOUNDARY AND EMBEDDED SHORTWAVES RIDING THROUGH. PLAN ON KEEPING EXTENDED DRY FOR NOW ALTHOUGH NEXT SURFACE SYSTEM DUE IN TUES NIGHT OR WED MAY WARRANT POPS WITH LATER ISSUANCES. .GID...NONE. EWALD
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 21, 9:42 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
942 PM CDT WED AUG 21 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0845 PM EDGAR NE .75 INCH HAIL
08/21/02 CLAY REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.Local storm report, Aug 21, 11:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1130 PM CDT WED AUG 21 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0925 PM EDGAR NE WIND DAMAGE
08/21/02 CLAY SEVERAL LARGE TREE
LIMBS DOWNED. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICIAL.
0930 PM ONG NE WIND DAMAGE
08/21/02 CLAY SEVERAL LARGE TREE
LIMBS DOWNED. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICIAL.
0930 PM ONG NE 1 INCH HAIL
08/21/02 CLAY REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 1:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Phelps | 52 min |
| Aug 22, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Dawson | 53 min |
| Aug 22, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper | 65 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.