Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 166, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2002, 6:49 PM CDT for Loup County, Nebraska. It was in force for 56 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 11, 2002, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2002, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 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), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 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 11, 6:50 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Almeria, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 1947 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -210 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
462 WUUS53 KLBF 112349 SVRLBF NEC115-120045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 648 PM CDT SUN AUG 11 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN LOUP COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 745 PM CDT... * AT 643 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ALMERIA MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... OVER TAYLOR AROUND 715 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 900 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4196 9964 4175 9966 4175 9923 4192 9925
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker | 38 min |
| Aug 10, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Loup | 62 min |
| Aug 11, 1:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd | 40 min |
| Aug 11, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd | 61 min |
| Aug 11, 7:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Cherry, Keya Paha | 42 min |
| Aug 11, 9:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 50 min |
| Aug 11, 10:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Keya Paha | 48 min |
| Aug 11, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Thomas | 49 min |
| Aug 11, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Thomas | 39 min |
| Aug 11, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Thomas | 29 min |
| Aug 11, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Thomas | 44 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.