Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2002, 4:43 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 62 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 24, 2002, 4:43 PM MDT (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2002, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cherry County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 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 24, 4:57 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Cody, 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 nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 876 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -532 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1683 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 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 242243 SVRLBF NEC031-242345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 442 PM MDT MON JUN 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 545 PM MDT(645 PM CDT)... * AT 442 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 35 MILES WEST OF MERRITT RESERVOIR DAM TO 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MERRITT RESERVOIR DAM...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 38 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GORDON TO 23 MILES NORTH OF MULLEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE... OVER OPEN RANGELAND 33 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CODY TO 11 MILES WEST OF BROWNLEE THROUGH 645 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...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 4216 10164 4214 10063 4282 10056 4280 10171
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Grant | 55 min |
| Jun 24, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 61 min |
| Jun 24, 5:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 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.