Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2002, 2:20 AM CDT for Boyd County, Holt County, Nebraska. It was in force for 55 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 8, 2002, 2:20 AM CDT (07:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2002, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Boyd County, NE, Holt County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:23 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 nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 328 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2349 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 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 080720 SVRLBF NEC015-089-080815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 220 AM CDT SAT JUN 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN BOYD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... CENTRAL HOLT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 315 AM CDT... * AT 218 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF ONEILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LYNCH AROUND 310 AM CDT... 2 MILES SOUTH OF MONOWI AROUND 315 AM 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. LAT...LON 4247 9888 4235 9869 4278 9812 4295 9838
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 7, 10:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine | 49 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.