Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2002, 8:56 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 64 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
- Jun 1, 2002, 8:56 PM MDT (02:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2002, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 64 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), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 9:35 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Merriman, 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
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 2242 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
396 WUUS53 KLBF 020256 SVRLBF NEC031-020400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 854 PM MDT SAT JUN 1 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 1000 PM MDT... * AT 850 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EAST CENTRAL SHERIDAN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 34 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RUSHVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... OVER FARM AND RANGELANDS WEST OF OF HIGHWAY 61 IN WESTERN 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM MDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4290 10206 4213 10202 4211 10150 4291 10163
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 7:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 52 min |
| Jun 1, 10:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 65 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.