Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2002, 10:11 PM CDT for Blaine County, Nebraska. It was in force for 49 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, 10:11 PM CDT (03:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2002, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Blaine County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:11 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.
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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 99 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 080311 SVRLBF NEC009-080400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1009 PM CDT FRI JUN 7 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BLAINE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... * AT 1006 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DUNNING MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... NEAR DUNNING AT 1020 PM CDT... 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BREWSTER AROUND 1050 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 4175 10014 4176 9970 4206 9971 4207 10013 $$ 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, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 65 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.