Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 7, NWS North Platte, NE
NWS North Platte, NE issued this tornado warning at Jul 2, 2002, 7:17 PM CDT for Brown County, Rock County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 min. 3 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
- Jul 2, 2002, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2002, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS North Platte, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Brown County, NE, Rock County, NE
The radar
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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 2, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Long Pine, NE | The tornado...originally touching down in Rock County...moved into rural Brown County and lifted quickly causing no damage. |
| Jul 2, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Bassett, NE | The tornado touched down briefly in a rural area approximately 8 miles west of Bassett in Rock County...near the Rock and Brown County line...and then entered Brown County. There was no damage. |
| Jul 2, 7:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Bassett, 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 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 2655 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2010 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
495 WFUS53 KLBF 030017 TORLBF NEC017-149-030045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 718 PM CDT TUE JUL 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTH PLATTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL BROWN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA NORTHWESTERN ROCK COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT... * AT 716 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BASSETT...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. * THE DEVELOPING TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... OVER FARM AND RANGELANDS OF WEST CENTRAL ROCK COUNTY 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. LAT...LON 4272 9955 4272 9978 4232 9966 4239 9937
The office that day
Everything else NWS North Platte, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Rock | 44 min |
| Jul 2, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Brown | 53 min |
| Jul 2, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Blaine, Custer | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 9:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LBF | Logan | 61 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 2002Every tornado warning in 2002Tornadoes in 2002
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.