Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Hastings, NE
NWS Hastings, NE issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2002, 6:12 PM CDT for Merrick County, Nebraska. It was in force for 48 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 5, 2002, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 2002, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Hastings, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Merrick County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 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 5, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1239 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGID 052312 TORGRI NEC121-060000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE 611 PM CDT SUN MAY 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MERRICK COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 607 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHAPMAN...OR ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF GRAND ISLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CHAPMAN AT 620 PM CDT ARCHER AT 640 PM CDT CENTRAL CITY AT 645 PM CDT CLARKS AT 700 PM CDT SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD WITH THIS STORM. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED EARLIER. PEOPLE IN MERRICK COUNTY SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. 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 4124 9829 4089 9826 4134 9763 4130 9791 NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Franklin | 56 min |
| May 5, 5:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Webster | 54 min |
| May 5, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Adams | 41 min |
| May 5, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Webster | 44 min |
| May 5, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Clay, Hall, Hamilton | 63 min |
| May 5, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Merrick | 59 min |
| May 5, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GID | Nuckolls, Webster | 44 min |
| May 5, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Kearney | 51 min |
| May 5, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Nance | 38 min |
| May 5, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GID | Buffalo | 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.