Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2002, 8:34 AM MDT for Arthur County, McPherson County, Nebraska. It was in force for 41 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 15, 2002, 8:34 AM MDT (14:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2002, 9:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Arthur County, NE, McPherson County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2065 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 151434 SVRLBF NEC005-117-151515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 834 AM MDT SAT JUN 15 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN ARTHUR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... WESTERN MCPHERSON COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 915 AM MDT(1015 AM CDT)... * AT 832 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHEASTERN GRANT COUNTY...OR ABOUT 46 MILES NORTH OF OGALLALA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... OVER FARM AND RANGELANDS OF EASTERN ARTHUR AND WESTERN MCHPERSON COUNTIES 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 4174 10125 4173 10169 4142 10164 4142 10114
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 5:21 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 54 min |
| Jun 15, 8:10 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 9:08 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 37 min |
| Jun 15, 9:46 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 59 min |
| Jun 15, 10:13 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 32 min |
| Jun 15, 10:45 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier, Hayes, Lincoln | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.