Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 10, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 24, 2002, 7:46 PM CDT for Wheeler County, Nebraska. It was in force for 29 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
- Jul 24, 2002, 7:46 PM CDT (00:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2002, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wheeler County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 166 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Bartlett, NE | Tornado touched down briefly with no damage. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 793 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3368 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
963 WFUS53 KLBF 250046 TORLBF NEC183-250115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 745 PM CDT WED JUL 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WHEELER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 815 PM CDT... * AT 739 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BARTLETT...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. RADAR CONFIRMS STRONG ROTATION IN THIS THUNDERSTORM. A TORNADO COULD TOUCH DOWN AT ANY TIME. AREAS NEAR 281 SOUTH NEAR PIBEL LAKE STATE RECREATION AREA COULD HAVE A TORNADO. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4207 9873 4175 9874 4175 9831 4207 9831
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.