Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2002, 6:12 PM CDT for Wheeler County, Nebraska. It was in force for 63 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
- Jun 7, 2002, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2002, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wheeler County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 463 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -514 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 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 072312 SVRLBF NEC183-080015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 612 PM CDT FRI JUN 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WHEELER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 715 PM CDT... * AT 610 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF BARTLETT...OR ABOUT 29 MILES WEST OF ELGIN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 10 MILES NORTH OF BARTLETT AROUND 635 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. 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 CDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4206 9874 4175 9875 4176 9831 4206 9831
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd | 51 min |
| Jun 7, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 58 min |
| Jun 7, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, McPherson | 56 min |
| Jun 7, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Loup | 51 min |
| Jun 7, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 29 min |
| Jun 7, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 45 min |
| Jun 7, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Holt | 65 min |
| Jun 7, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield | 45 min |
| Jun 7, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 59 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.