Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2002, 4:53 PM CDT for Butler County, Platte County, Nebraska. It was in force for 37 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 12, 2002, 4:53 PM CDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Butler County, NE, Platte County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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 12, 4:55 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Duncan, NE | Hail up to golfball size pelted an area of southern Platte county from around Duncan to the southern sections of Columbus. In fact, there was even one unofficial report that some stones were as big as baseball size in between Duncan and Columbus on highway 30 |
| Jun 12, 5:18 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Bellwood, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 2034 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.5
- Supercell composite
- -2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KOAX 122153 TOROMA NEC023-141-122230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 453 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BUTLER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA PLATTE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEBRASKA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF COLUMBUS * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 450 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF DUNCAN...OR ABOUT 4 MILES WEST OF COLUMBUS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... BELLWOOD AND COLUMBUS IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...GO TO A BASEMENT. IF A BASEMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE...TAKE COVER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. AVOID WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN IOWA AND EASTERN NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4153 9746 4139 9759 4125 9732 4137 9719 GRIFFIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Jefferson | 33 min |
| Jun 11, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage | 27 min |
| Jun 11, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Sarpy, Saunders | 27 min |
| Jun 12, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster, Seward | 38 min |
| Jun 12, 4:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Lancaster, Saunders | 29 min |
| Jun 12, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Platte | 37 min |
| Jun 12, 5:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Cass | 29 min |
| Jun 12, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass | 30 min |
| Jun 12, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Dodge, Saunders | 37 min |
| Jun 12, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Seward | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Butler | 30 min |
| Jun 12, 6:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | OAX | Seward | 28 min |
| Jun 12, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster, Saunders | 29 min |
| Jun 12, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Saline, Seward | 30 min |
| Jun 12, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Burt, Washington | 33 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.