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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 2002, 11:07 PM MDT for 4 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 53 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 2002, 11:07 PM MDT (05:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2002, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Chase County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Lincoln County, NE, Perkins County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:10 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, 11:15 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Wauneta, NE | |
| Aug 22, 11:45 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Hayes Center, NE | Wind and hail of unknown size damaged siding on a house and stripped several acres of corn. |
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, 5.1 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
- 576 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.8
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 8:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 58 min |
| Aug 22, 8:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 58 min |
| Aug 22, 9:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur | 52 min |
| Aug 22, 9:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 61 min |
| Aug 22, 10:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Hooker, Thomas | 60 min |
| Aug 22, 10:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 58 min |
| Aug 22, 11:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier, Lincoln | 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.