Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS North Platte, NE

May 27, 2002Cherry County, Nebraska

NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2002, 4:48 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 57 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 2002, 4:48 PM MDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2002, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 57 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), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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.

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 27, 1:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 159 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 44 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -490 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1682 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KLBF 272248
SVRLBF
NEC031-272345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
447 PM MDT MON MAY 27 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA...

* UNTIL 545 PM MDT...

* AT 445 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WEST CENTRAL
  CHERRY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 38 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GORDON...MOVING EAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...

  OVER FARM AND RANGELANDS OF SOUTHWEST CHERRY COUNTY

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 4244 10201 4210 10200 4210 10110 4251 10122

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 4:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	55 min
May 27, 5:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Garden, Grant, Sheridan	38 min
May 27, 5:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	62 min
May 27, 5:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Cherry	41 min
May 27, 5:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LBF	Keith	38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2002 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.