Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2002, 6:54 AM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 51 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 26, 2002, 6:54 AM MDT (12:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2002, 7:45 AM MDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cherry County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:58 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 26, 7:00 AM MDT | Hail 1 | Cody, 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 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 1929 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1191 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
177 WUUS53 KLBF 261254 SVRLBF NEC031-261345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 752 AM CDT MON AUG 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 845 AM CDT(745 AM MDT)... * AT 748 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES EAST OF BROWNLEE...OR ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AINSWORTH...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... OVER RURAL RAEAS ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 83 TO THE EAST OF BROWNLEE 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. LAT...LON 4298 10142 4210 10136 4211 10019 4297 10023
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 3:26 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keya Paha | 64 min |
| Aug 26, 3:49 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 56 min |
| Aug 26, 4:14 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 31 min |
| Aug 26, 4:45 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 60 min |
| Aug 26, 5:07 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 53 min |
| Aug 26, 7:22 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Brown | 53 min |
| Aug 26, 8:05 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Loup | 55 min |
| Aug 26, 8:12 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 48 min |
| Aug 26, 8:24 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine | 36 min |
| Aug 26, 12:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 58 min |
| Aug 26, 12:36 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 39 min |
| Aug 26, 12:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Chase | 66 min |
| Aug 26, 1:17 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Cherry | 58 min |
| Aug 26, 2:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 59 min |
| Aug 26, 2:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 61 min |
| Aug 26, 3:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 57 min |
| Aug 26, 3:03 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 57 min |
| Aug 26, 3:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 60 min |
| Aug 26, 3:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant, Hooker, Thomas | 56 min |
| Aug 26, 4:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 57 min |
| Aug 26, 4:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 61 min |
| Aug 26, 4:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant, Hooker, Thomas | 58 min |
| Aug 26, 4:55 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | LBF | Grant | 2 hr |
| Aug 26, 5:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 60 min |
| Aug 26, 5:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 44 min |
| Aug 26, 5:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, McPherson | 63 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.