Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2002, 7:54 PM CDT for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 8, 2002, 7:54 PM CDT (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2002, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Frontier County, NE
The radar
The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 8:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Eustis, 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 nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 1935 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1731 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
568 WUUS53 KLBF 090054 SVRLBF NEC063-090130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 752 PM CDT THU AUG 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN FRONTIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 830 PM CDT... * AT 744 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EUSTIS...OR ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ELWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EUSTIS AROUND 820 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. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4051 10029 4039 10012 4068 9998 4069 10022
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, Thomas | 47 min |
| Aug 8, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 59 min |
| Aug 8, 9:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 51 min |
| Aug 8, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine | 54 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.