Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2002, 8:16 PM CDT for Kearney County, Nebraska. It was in force for 44 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
- May 26, 2002, 8:16 PM CDT (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 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), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
| May 26, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 151 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 WFUS53 KGID 270116 TORGRI NEC099-270200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 814 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KEARNEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 811 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION AND POTENTIAL TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MINDEN...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTH OF KEARNEY... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THIS SEVERE STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND POTENTIAL TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MINDEN AT 820 PM CDT... NORMAN AT 830 PM CDT... THIS WARNING EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS TORNADO WARNING. PEOPLE IN KEARNEY COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...LEAVE IT IMMEDIATELY AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. NEVER TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. IF IN A VEHICLE...LEAVE IT IMMEDIATELY AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4063 9917 4035 9915 4035 9872 4066 9874 NNNN
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, 7:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams, Hall | 64 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, 8:47 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 |
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.