Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2002, 11:45 AM CDT for Frontier County, Hayes County, Lincoln County, Nebraska. It was in force for 60 min. 4 reports 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 15, 2002, 11:45 AM CDT (16:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2002, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Frontier County, NE, Hayes County, NE, Lincoln County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:48 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 11:55 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Hayes Center, NE | |
| Jun 15, 11:56 AM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Wellfleet, NE | |
| Jun 15, 12:09 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Curtis, NE | |
| Jun 15, 12:12 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Moorefield, NE | Pea to dime size hail covered the ground. |
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 nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 55 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 151645 SVRLBF NEC063-085-111-151745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1145 AM CDT SAT JUN 15 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... NORTHEASTERN HAYES COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... FRONTIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 1245 PM CDT... * AT 1143 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 21 MILES NORTHEAST OF CURTIS TO 16 MILES WEST OF MAYWOOD...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES SOUTH OF GOTHENBURG TO 22 MILES WEST OF CURTIS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE... OVER MAYWOOD AROUND 1155 AM CDT... OVER CURTIS AROUND NOON 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 4088 10013 4077 10095 4036 10076 4041 10004
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 6:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Sheridan | 54 min |
| Jun 15, 9:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 35 min |
| Jun 15, 9:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Arthur, McPherson | 41 min |
| Jun 15, 10:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | McPherson | 37 min |
| Jun 15, 10:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 59 min |
| Jun 15, 11:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 32 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.