Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 2, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2002, 6:28 PM CDT for Frontier County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 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
- May 26, 2002, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2002, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Frontier County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Stockville, NE | Brief touchdown with no damage reported. |
| May 26, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Stockville, NE | Brief touchdown with no damage reported. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 1:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 26, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -560 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLBF 262328 TORLBF NEC063-270000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 629 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FRONTIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 700 PM CDT... * AT 627 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 6 MILES WEST OF STOCKVILLE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF CURTIS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE DEVELOPING TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STOCKVILLE AROUND 640 PM CDT... 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. LAT...LON 4069 10074 4037 10068 4036 9990 4070 9994
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 1:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan, Thomas | 51 min |
| May 26, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Brown | 39 min |
| May 26, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan, Thomas | 39 min |
| May 26, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 46 min |
| May 26, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine | 63 min |
| May 26, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Logan | 55 min |
| May 26, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt | 50 min |
| May 26, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 59 min |
| May 26, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Boyd, Holt | 59 min |
| May 26, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer, Logan | 61 min |
| May 26, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 56 min |
| May 26, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Garfield, Wheeler | 61 min |
| May 26, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 61 min |
| May 26, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Lincoln | 60 min |
| May 26, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Custer | 60 min |
| May 26, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Frontier | 56 min |
| May 26, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LBF | Frontier | 31 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.