Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2002, 3:40 PM CDT for Boyd County, Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 min. 2 reports 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
- May 26, 2002, 3:40 PM CDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2002, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Boyd County, NE, Holt County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 3:56 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Butte, NE | |
| May 26, 4:05 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Spencer, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Aberdeen, SD (KABR), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2180 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 262040 SVRLBF NEC015-089-262130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 341 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN BOYD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... NORTHWESTERN HOLT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 430 PM CDT... * AT 336 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NAPER...OR ABOUT 16 MILES WEST OF SPENCER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NAPER AROUND 350 PM CDT... 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF BUTTE AROUND 410 PM CDT... 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF ANOKA AROUND 420 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. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4270 9926 4272 9888 4299 9856 4335 9895
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan, Thomas | 51 min |
| May 26, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Brown | 39 min |
| May 26, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan, Thomas | 39 min |
| May 26, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 46 min |
| May 26, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine | 63 min |
| May 26, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Logan | 55 min |
| May 26, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 59 min |
| May 26, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt | 59 min |
| May 26, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Logan | 61 min |
| May 26, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 56 min |
| May 26, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Wheeler | 61 min |
| May 26, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 61 min |
| May 26, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 60 min |
| May 26, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 60 min |
| May 26, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 56 min |
| May 26, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier | 32 min |
| May 26, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier | 31 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.