Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2002, 5:46 PM CDT for Loup County, Nebraska. It was in force for 44 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 25, 2002, 5:46 PM CDT (22:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Loup County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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 25, 6:00 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Almeria, NE | |
| Jun 25, 6:37 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Taylor, 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 25, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 1930 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 252246 SVRLBF NEC115-252330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 546 PM CDT TUE JUN 25 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LOUP COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 630 PM CDT... * AT 545 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALMERIA...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTH OF TAYLOR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF TAYLOR AROUND 630 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4209 9964 4176 9966 4176 9925 4208 9927 AWJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 62 min |
| Jun 25, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 67 min |
| Jun 25, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 59 min |
| Jun 25, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup | 45 min |
| Jun 25, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 25 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.