Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2002, 7:41 PM CDT for Adams County, Hall County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 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
- May 26, 2002, 7:41 PM CDT (00:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2002, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Adams County, NE, Hall County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Wood River, NE | |
| May 26, 8:15 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Hastings, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 1192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1891 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGID 270041 SVRGRI NEC001-079-270145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 740 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ADAMS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA SOUTHERN HALL COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 845 PM CDT * AT 736 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALDA...OR ABOUT OVER GRAND ISLAND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE STORM INCLUDE DONIPHAN...HASTINGS...JUNIATA...AND KENESAW. PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN HALL AND ADAMS COUNTIES 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. ALSO...THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. LAT...LON 4089 9872 4036 9872 4036 9827 4090 9829 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 May 26, 12:53 PM CDT, 6 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 26, 12:53 PM CDT, 6 hours 48 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 1253 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002 ...FIRST AND FOREMOST CONCERN IS STORM CHC/S THIS AFTN/TONIGHT AND THREAT FOR SVR... LATEST SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS EARNEST MSTR TRANSPORT INTO CNTRL/SW NE ON NOSE OF STG LL SRLY FLOW INADV OF UPPER TROF SITUATED ALG NE/SD BORDER AND ASSOCD/SFC TROF OVR NRN NE. PREFNTL AIRMASS ALREADY QUITE UNSTABLE AND SEEMINGLY PRIMED FOR CONV INITIATION COME LT AFTN. BEST MSTR FLUX CONCURRENT WITHIN AREA OF BTR PRES FALLS ALG A HLC TO BBW LINE W/ INCREASING ACCAS FIELD INVOF SFC RIPPLE AND UPPER WV VCNTY VTN. SO IT SEEMS STORMS SHLD INITIATE SOMEWHERE N OF BBW OVR TO ONL AND SWWD ALG DRYLINE ARND 300 PM...SIMILAR TO ETA/META PROG...AND DEVELOPMENT SWWD ALG SFC THETA GRADIENT. NOCTURNAL LL JET INCREASE INTO SC NE THIS EVENING WILL LIKELY AIDE IN MCS DVLPMNT OVR NE HALF OF CWA...SOMEWHAT FURTHER WWD THEN YDA/S MODEL PROGS AND THEN A PROPAGATION E/SE INTO NE KS LATE. OTHERWISE...APPEARS DRYLINE WILL REMAIN OUTSIDE CWA WRN BORDER AND HAVE LTL ACTIVITY ASSOCD/W IT HERE BUT WILL BEAR MONITORING. DEEP LYR SHEAR ALTHOUGH NOT IMPRESSIVE MORE THEN ENOUGH IN TANDEM W/MODERATE INSTABILITY TO SUSTAIN UPDRAFTS W/SIG DIRECTIONAL COMPONENT COMBINED W/MID LVL DRYNESS MAKES FOR MODEST LG HAIL THREAT. FOR MON...APPEARS ANY LINGERING STORMS... RESIDUAL CLD DEBRIS AND LG SCALE SUBSIDENCE WILL SUBSEQUENTLY KEEP RENEWED STORM THREAT AT BAY UNTIL MON NIGHT IN ASSOCN/W NXT UPSTREAM UPPER TROF OVR WA ATTM. GOING TEMPS FOR MON WILL NEED CONSIDERABLE MODIFICATION DOWNWARD GIVEN ABV EXPECTATIONS. AFT THAT...APPEARS LG SCALE HGT RISES AND SRN STREAM SPLIT CUTOFF LOW MIGRATING THRU SRN PLAINS WILL PRETTY MUCH PRECLUDE ANY PRECIP MENTION THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK AS TEMPS WARM TO SUMMER LIKE LEVELS W/TUE PD STILL UNCERTAIN AT THIS POINT AND THEREBY NECESSITATING KEEPING THE GOING POPS THEN. .GID...NONE. TEH
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 26, 5:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
KSZ005>007-017>019-NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-271000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 501 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002 ...SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL CONTINUE TO BE NEEDED ACROSS PARTS OF THE AREA THROUGH THIS EVENING... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA UNTIL 800 PM CDT...FOR AREAS ALONG AND WEST OF A GREELEY TO ALMA LINE. SOUTH WINDS LATE THIS AFTERNOON WILL CONTINUE TO BRING INCREASING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE INTO THE REGION THROUGH THE EVENING...WITH INCREASING INSTABILITY AIDING CONTINUED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ALONG AND WEST OF A GREELEY TO HOLDREGE LINE. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL CONTAIN LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS AND PERHAPS A FEW DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. A DEVELOPING LOW LEVEL JET THIS EVENING WILL ALLOW STORMS OVER NORTHERN NEBRASKA TO DEVELOP SOUTHWARD THIS EVENING TOWARDS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS MAINLY AFTER 700 PM. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS LATER THIS EVENING...FOR AREAS WEST OF THE US 81 CORRIDOR.
Local storm report, May 26, 6:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
611 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0558 PM CAMPBELL NE 1 INCH HAIL
05/26/02 FRANKLIN REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0559 PM NATOMA KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/26/02 OSBORNE REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.Local storm report, May 26, 7:16 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
716 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0656 PM CAIRO NE TORNADO
05/26/02 HALL POSSIBLE TORNADO
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
SEVERAL LARGE TREES
DOWN AND TRAILER DAMAGED.
0657 PM 4 N ST PAUL NE TORNADO
05/26/02 HOWARD REPORTED BY PUBLIC 4
MILES NORTH OF HIGHWAY
92 NEAR ST. PAUL..
0706 PM 6 N ALDA NE TORNADO
05/26/02 HALL REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0714 PM 1 W CHAPMAN NE TORNADO
05/26/02 MERRICK REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, May 26, 7:20 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
720 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0716 PM 1 SW CHAPMAN NE TORNADO
05/26/02 MERRICK REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.Local storm report, May 26, 7:34 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
734 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0705 PM GRAND IS NE 70 MPH TSTM GUST
05/26/02 HALL REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0705 PM ALTON KS 1 INCH HAIL
05/26/02 OSBORNE REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0725 PM 12 WSW FULLERTON NE TORNADO
05/26/02 NANCE REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0732 PM CENTRAL CITY NE .88 INCH HAIL
05/26/02 MERRICK
WWUS53 KGID 270035
SVSGRI
NEZ061-270045-
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
732 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR PEOPLE IN BUFFALO COUNTY
REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT...
PEOPLE IN BUFFALO COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
AT 731 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN SHELTON AND GIBBON...OR ABOUT
13 MILES NORTHWEST OF KEARNEY...MOVING EAST AT AROUND 20 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE STORM INCLUDE RURAL EASTERN
BUFFALO COUNTY.
DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL THE
SIZE OF GOLFBALLS ARE LIKELY. ALSO...THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY
OF PRODUCING TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN HASTINGS.
LAT...LON 4095 9941 4070 9938 4071 9875 4097 9874
NNNNLocal storm report, May 26, 7:40 PM CDT, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
740 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0725 PM KEARNEY NE .75 INCH HAIL
05/26/02 BUFFALO REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0738 PM FRANKLIN NE 4 INCH HAIL
05/26/02 FRANKLIN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 44 min |
| May 26, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Merrick, Nance | 51 min |
| May 26, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Kearney | 53 min |
| May 26, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Furnas | 65 min |
| May 26, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Hamilton | 63 min |
| May 26, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Kearney | 45 min |
| May 26, 7:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Polk, York | 67 min |
| May 26, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Harlan, Phelps | 61 min |
| May 26, 7:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Franklin | 64 min |
| May 26, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Kearney | 44 min |
| May 26, 8:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Harlan | 43 min |
| May 26, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nuckolls | 67 min |
| May 26, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin | 44 min |
| May 26, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin | 33 min |
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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.