Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2002, 9:55 PM CDT for Custer County, Nebraska. It was in force for 65 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, 9:55 PM CDT (02:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2002, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 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), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 75 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 080255 SVRLBF NEC041-080400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 954 PM CDT FRI JUN 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CUSTER COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... * AT 951 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF ARNOLD TO 19 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ARNOLD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE... OVER CALLAWAY AROUND 1005 PM CDT... OVER MERNA AROUND 1040 PM CDT... OVER BROKEN BOW AROUND 1050 PM CDT... 15 MILES WEST OF SARGENT AROUND 1100 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. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4171 10022 4108 10017 4108 9924 4172 9926 $$ CDC
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, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 50 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.