Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2002, 6:48 PM CDT for Hall County, Nebraska. It was in force for 42 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, 6:48 PM CDT (23:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2002, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hall County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 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, 6:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Cairo, NE | |
| May 26, 7:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 E | Grand Is, 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.
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 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -560 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGID 262348 TORGRI NEC079-270030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 648 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HALL COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 646 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF CAIRO...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAND ISLAND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WOOD RIVER AT 700 PM CDT GRAND ISLAND AT 705 PM CDT DONIPHAN AT 715 PM CDT PEOPLE IN HALL COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. LAT...LON 4105 9871 4072 9870 4073 9832 4105 9831 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Sherman, Valley | 59 min |
| May 26, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin, Webster | 53 min |
| May 26, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Greeley | 60 min |
| May 26, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Howard | 59 min |
| May 26, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo, Sherman | 26 min |
| May 26, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Howard | 28 min |
| May 26, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin | 55 min |
| May 26, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Franklin | 63 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.