Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2002, 5:35 PM CDT for Wheeler County, Nebraska. It was in force for 55 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 22, 2002, 5:35 PM CDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wheeler County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 170 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 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 22, 5:50 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Bartlett, 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 22, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 778 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1168 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
449
WUUS53 KLBF 222235
SVRLBF
NEC183-222330-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
535 PM CDT THU AUG 22 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WHEELER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...
* UNTIL 630 PM CDT...
* AT 533 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF
ERICSON...OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTHEAST OF ORD...MOVING EAST AT 15
MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
5 MILES SOUTH OF BARTLETT AROUND 545 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
THURSDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA.
LAT...LON 4181 9873 4174 9872 4176 9831 4186 9829
4199 9831 4206 9834 4208 9876The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 53 min |
| Aug 22, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 56 min |
| Aug 22, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 41 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.