Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2002, 9:01 PM CDT for Wheeler County, Nebraska. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report 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 19, 2002, 9:01 PM CDT (02:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2002, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wheeler County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:03 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 9:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Bartlett, NE |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 1342 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2359 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLBF 200201 SVRLBF NEC183-200245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 901 PM CDT WED JUN 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN WHEELER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 945 PM CDT... * AT 858 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF BARTLETT...OR ABOUT 14 MILES WEST OF ELGIN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. 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 4207 9848 4187 9858 4185 9786 4211 9781
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln, Logan | 49 min |
| Jun 19, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 56 min |
| Jun 19, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield | 47 min |
| Jun 19, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Loup | 46 min |
| Jun 19, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 57 min |
| Jun 19, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 59 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.