Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at Apr 27, 2002, 3:10 PM CDT for Lancaster County, Saline County, Seward County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 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
- Apr 27, 2002, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2002, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lancaster County, NE, Saline County, NE, Seward County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 3:25 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Milford, NE | A brief touchdown in open country caught on film by the same storm chaser that saw the larger tornado which did some damage west of Crete this particular afternoon. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 471 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 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 KOAX 272010 TOROMA NEC109-151-159-272045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE 310 PM CDT SAT APR 27 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LANCASTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA SALINE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 305 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC STORM AND TRAINED STORM SPOTTERS CONFIRM A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF CRETE...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LINCOLN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED... MILFORD PLEASANT DALE...DENTON GARLAND MALCOLM RAYMOND DAVEY 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 600 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN NEBRASKA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST IOWA AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA. LAT...LON 4063 9714 4056 9693 4101 9664 4110 9692 FOBERT
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.