Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Omaha, NE
NWS Omaha, NE issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2002, 8:05 PM CDT for Butler County, Seward County, Nebraska. It was in force for 55 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
- May 26, 2002, 8:05 PM CDT (01:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Omaha, NE
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Butler County, NE, Seward County, NE
The radar
The Omaha radar (KOAX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:07 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.
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, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 26, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Omaha, NE (KOAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2328 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 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 270105
TOROMA
NEC023-159-270200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA NE
805 PM CDT SUN MAY 26 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN OMAHA HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
BUTLER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL NEBRASKA
SEWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA
* UNTIL 900 PM CDT
* AT 802 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WITH A POSSIBLE
TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED FROM 24
MILES WEST OF BELLWOOD TO 25 MILES WEST OF TAMORA...OR FROM 17
MILES WEST OF COLUMBUS TO 6 MILES WEST OF YORK...MOVING EAST AT 35
MPH.
* TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
SURPRISE AROUND 820 PM CDT
RISING CITY AROUND 825 PM CDT
ULYSSES AROUND 830 PM CDT
GARRISON AROUND 835 PM CDT
TAMORA...STAPLEHURST AROUND 840 PM CDT
DWIGHT...DAVID CITY AROUND 845 PM CDT
SMALL...BRIEF BUT DANGEROUS TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE. GO TO A BASEMENT
OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA.
LAT...LON 4136 9735 4121 9734 4081 9733 4079 9696
4138 9698 4135 9710
SMITHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Omaha, NE issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Colfax, Platte | 65 min |
| May 26, 8:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Saline | 40 min |
| May 26, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster, Saunders | 38 min |
| May 26, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Gage, Jefferson | 65 min |
| May 26, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Saline | 31 min |
| May 26, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Lancaster, Saunders | 31 min |
| May 26, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Cass, Johnson, Otoe | 52 min |
| May 26, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OAX | Pawnee | 39 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.