Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 240, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2002, 11:40 AM CDT for Buffalo County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2002, 11:40 AM CDT (16:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2002, 12:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 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), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 1929 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1191 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
980 WUUS53 KGID 261640 SVRGRI NEC019-261730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1139 AM CDT MON AUG 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN BUFFALO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 1230 PM CDT * AT 1136 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTH OF RAVENNA...OR ABOUT 32 MILES NORTH OF KEARNEY...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE STORM INCLUDE RAVENNA... POOLE...RIVERDALE AND GIBBON. PEOPLE IN EASTERN BUFFALO COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IS DAMAGING WIND GUSTS GREATER THAN 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF DIMES. LAT...LON 4102 9874 4104 9922 4068 9924 4070 9873 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 Aug 26, 2:10 AM CDT, 9 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 2:10 AM CDT, 9 hours 30 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 210 AM CDT MON AUG 26 2002 MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE THIS TIME IS WHEN/WHERE/IF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CROSS GID CWA. 00Z UA ANALYSES HAD NEB ON NORTHEASTERN EDGE OF SW U.S. RIDGING. SFC ANALYSIS HAS EXTREMELY WEAK GRADIENT WITH WEAK RIDGING FROM OH VALLEY TO SE COLORADO. MODELS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT LEAVING WEAK SFC PATTERN ACROSS NEB/KS. WITH NO BOUNDARIES AND NO NOCTURNAL LOW LEVEL JET, WILL NEED UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS TO PRODUCE LIFT. UPPER LOW EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER WESTERN STATES AND TURN FLOW TOWARD THE WSW INTO NEB. SWRN STATES RIDGE REMAINS IN PLACE, THOUGH. SO TIMING OF FEATURES APPEARS DIFFICULT. TONIGHT LOOKS LIKE A REPEAT OF SUN NIGHT WITH TSTMS STAYING WELL N OF GID CWA. WITH UPPER FLOW SHIFTING A LITTLE SOUTHWEST AND SOME WEAK DIFFLUENCE OVER GID CWA, WILL CARRY MINOR POPS TUE NIGHT AND WED NIGHT. EXTENDED MODELS SEND NO MAJOR FEATURES ACROSS THE CENTRAL STATES THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. ONE MINOR WAVE SHOWN ON CANADIAN AND MRF MAY BE ENOUGH TO PRODUCE SOME TSTMS FRIDAY. TSTMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT ENTIRELY ANY DAY...ESPECIALLY DURING THE NIGHTTIME HOURS. .GID...NONE. SCHURR
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 26, 6:52 AM CDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-271200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 652 AM CDT MON AUG 26 2002 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED TODAY OR TONIGHT... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SOUTH ACROSS CENTRAL NEBRASKA THIS MORNING...AND AFFECT AREAS GENERALLY NORTH OF INTERSTATE 80. HAIL TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER IS THE PRIMARY CONCERN FROM THE STORMS...ALTHOUGH WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH IS ALSO POSSIBLE. WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...THEREFORE SPOTTERS SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OUT OF CENTRAL NEBRASKA BY THIS AFTERNOON... AND WEAK HIGH PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT IS FORECAST TO HOLD STEADY ACROSS NEBRASKA AND KANSAS. IT SHOULD PREVENT THUNDERSTORMS FROM DEVELOPING OVER SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS INTO TONIGHT. THE ATMOSPHERE WILL GRADUALLY BECOME MORE FAVORABLE FOR PRODUCING ADDITIONAL STORMS AS THE WEEK PROGRESSES. CMF
Local storm report, Aug 26, 9:06 AM CDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
906 AM CDT MON AUG 26 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0817 AM 8 NE FULLERTON NE 1 INCH HAIL
08/26/02 NANCE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Special weather statement, Aug 26, 11:04 AM CDT, 36 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-271200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1104 AM CDT MON AUG 26 2002 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED TODAY OR TONIGHT... WEAK HIGH PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT IS EXPECTED TO HOLD STEADY ACROSS NEBRASKA AND KANSAS. IT SHOULD PREVENT THUNDERSTORMS FROM DEVELOPING OVER SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. DEE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 8:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nance | 39 min |
| Aug 26, 8:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick | 65 min |
| Aug 26, 9:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Howard | 66 min |
| Aug 26, 11:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman | 32 min |
| Aug 26, 11:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Hall | 51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.