Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 16, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Aug 24, 2002, 3:16 PM MDT for Deuel County, Nebraska. It was in force for 14 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2002, 3:16 PM MDT (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2002, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Deuel County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 1:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 396 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 916 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
158 WFUS53 KLBF 242116 TORLBF NEC049-242130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 315 PM MDT SAT AUG 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN DEUEL COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA * UNTIL 330 PM MDT... * AT 413 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A WEAK TORNADO 1 MILE NORTHWEST OF BIG SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4120 10208 4121 10235 4101 10237 4102 10207
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 7:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown | 53 min |
| Aug 23, 7:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry, Sheridan | 56 min |
| Aug 23, 9:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine | 37 min |
| Aug 23, 9:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Cherry | 62 min |
| Aug 23, 11:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Brown, Rock | 38 min |
| Aug 23, 11:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Keya Paha | 46 min |
| Aug 24, 12:06 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt, Rock | 54 min |
| Aug 24, 12:28 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 1:32 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Holt | 43 min |
| Aug 24, 2:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garden | 59 min |
| Aug 24, 2:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Deuel, Garden | 33 min |
| Aug 24, 2:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Deuel | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 3:41 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Perkins | 49 min |
| Aug 24, 4:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Deuel | 51 min |
| Aug 24, 4:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Chase | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 5:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 55 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.