Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2002, 8:10 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 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 7, 2002, 8:10 PM CDT (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Custer County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 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 7, 8:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Comstock, NE | The roof was ripped off a hog shed. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 942 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3335 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 080110 SVRLBF NEC041-080200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 810 PM CDT FRI JUN 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 900 PM CDT... * AT 806 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF WESTERVILLE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF BROKEN BOW...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 6 MILES SOUTH OF COMSTOCK AROUND 820 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 4170 9966 4120 9972 4121 9921 4173 9923
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith, Lincoln, McPherson | 58 min |
| Jun 7, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Keith | 31 min |
| Jun 7, 7:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 23 min |
| Jun 7, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden, Sheridan | 46 min |
| Jun 7, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 60 min |
| Jun 7, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 63 min |
| Jun 7, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 53 min |
| Jun 7, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 57 min |
| Jun 7, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 65 min |
| Jun 7, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine | 49 min |
| Jun 8, 2:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt | 55 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.