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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2002, 5:52 PM MDT for Keith County, Nebraska. It was in force for 38 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
- May 27, 2002, 5:52 PM MDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2002, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Keith County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 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 27, 5:55 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Roscoe, 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 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 272352 SVRLBF NEC101-280030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 552 PM MDT MON MAY 27 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KEITH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 630 PM MDT... * AT 551 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF KEYSTONE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF OGALLALA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 2 MILES NORTH OF KEYSTONE AROUND 600 PM MDT... 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF PAXTON AROUND 620 PM MDT... 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 4137 10201 4103 10198 4103 10131 4136 10132
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, 4:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 57 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 |
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.