Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2002, 5:46 PM MDT for Cherry County, Nebraska. It was in force for 59 min. 2 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 24, 2002, 5:46 PM MDT (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2002, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 59 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), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 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, 6:00 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Crookston, NE | Hail covered the ground 8 miles south of Crookston. |
| Jun 24, 6:45 PM MDT | Hail 4 | Valentine, NE | Hail broke windshields in vehicles and damaged siding on homes. |
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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 242346 SVRLBF NEC031-250045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 541 PM MDT MON JUN 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... * UNTIL 645 PM MDT (745 PM CDT)... * AT 539 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 27 MILES SOUTH OF MERRIMAN...OR ABOUT 34 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GORDON. ADDITIONAL SEVERE THUNDESTORMS WERE LOCATED 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CODY ...AND A SEVERE STORM 11 MILES SOUTH OF KILGORE. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE... OVER FARM AND RANGELANDS OF WEST CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY AND ACROSS FARM AND RANGELANDS OF CENTRAL CHERRY COUNTY THROUGH 645 PM MDT. 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 4296 10202 4212 10200 4215 10032 4297 10028 KECK
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, 4:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 62 min |
| Jun 24, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keith | 61 min |
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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.