Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 32, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 2002, 7:13 PM CDT for Phelps County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 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
- Jun 19, 2002, 7:13 PM CDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2002, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Phelps County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 62 E | Bertrand, NE | |
| Jun 19, 7:22 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Loomis, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 1728 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 221 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 15.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGID 200013 TORGRI NEC137-200100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 712 PM CDT WED JUN 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PHELPS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 800 PM CDT * AT 704 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOOMIS...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEXINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE TORNADO INCLUDE RURAL PARTS OF NORTHERN PHELPS COUNTY. PEOPLE IN NORTHERN PHELPS COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4067 9961 4035 9963 4036 9919 4065 9920 DEE/07 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Gosper | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 66 min |
| Jun 19, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Buffalo | 47 min |
| Jun 19, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Howard | 56 min |
| Jun 19, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 8:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick, Nance | 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.