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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS North Platte, NE

August 22, 20024 counties in Nebraska

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.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 22, 11:15 PM MDTHail 0.88Wauneta, NE
Aug 22, 11:45 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 52 EHayes Center, NEWind 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2002-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 576 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2002-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -44 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The office that day

Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 8:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFGrant58 min
Aug 22, 8:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry58 min
Aug 22, 9:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFArthur52 min
Aug 22, 9:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry61 min
Aug 22, 10:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFHooker, Thomas60 min
Aug 22, 10:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFCherry58 min
Aug 22, 11:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBFFrontier, Lincoln41 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.