1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Omaha, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 12, 1:55 PM CST, 6 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 255 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002 FORECAST CHALLENGES -- SEVERE/HEAVY RAINFALL POTENTIAL THIS EVENING SYNOPSIS -- 18Z SUBJECTIVE ANALYSIS INDICATED THE PRIMARY SYNOPTIC COLD FRONT FROM NERN MN TO NERN NEB TO ERN WY. A SECOND, WEAKER AND LESS PROGRESSIVE FRONTAL BOUNDARY EXTENDED FROM CNTRL IA THROUGH SERN NEB INTO W-CNTRL KS. CONVECTION HAS INITIATED THIS AFTERNOON BETWEEN THESE TWO BOUNDARIES OVER CNTRL NEB ALONG AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FROM MORNING CONVECTION. 18Z LAPS ANALYSIS SHOWED CAPE VALUES OF 1500-2500 J/KG BETWEEN THESE TWO BOUNDARIES OVER ERN NEB/SWRN IA WITH PROFILER DATA INDICATING MID LEVEL FLOW OF 35-45 KT OVER THE AREA. OVER FAR SERN NEB, AIRMASS IS MORE STABLE AND LIKELY RECOVERING FROM MORNING CONVECTION AS SEEN IN THE 18Z TOP SOUNDING. FORECAST -- IN THE SHORT TERM, SEVERE WEATHER AND HEAVY RAINFALL POTENTIAL IS THE PRIMARY CONCERN. CONVECTION SHOULD INCREASE IN COVERAGE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS SHORTWAVE (MOST EVIDENT AT 700 MB IN THIS MORNINGS UPPER AIR ANALYSIS AND CURRENT PROFILER DATA) MOVES INTO THE AREA. ALTHOUGH LOW-LEVEL SHEAR REMAINS QUITE WEAK, DEEP LAYER SHEAR IS SUFFICIENT FOR SCATTERED SEVERE CONVECTION. HEAVY RAINFALL POTENTIAL SHOULD REMAIN CONFINED TO OUR SRN CWFA TONIGHT (OWING LARGELY TO WEAKER FORECAST STORM MOVEMENT) AS THE ETA FORECASTS A RELATIVELY WEAK LOW LEVEL JET, WHICH VEERS TO WLY BY 13/06Z. ALTHOUGH WE WILL ADJUST POP WORDING ACCORDINGLY PRIOR TO ZONE ISSUANCE, WE WILL TENTATIVELY TAPER POPS NWD THROUGH THE CWFA. THE CLOSED MID LEVEL SYSTEM, CURRENTLY MOVING SEWD INTO ND, WILL DRIVE A COOLER AND DRIER AIRMASS INTO THE AREA ON THURSDAY. GOOD MIXING SHOULD SUPPORT BREEZY CONDITIONS WITH HIGHS CLOSER TO THE WARMER FWC VALUES. ALTHOUGH MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES WILL COOL ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE MID LEVEL SYSTEM TO OUR E, WE BELIEVE THAT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE SHOULD BE SCOURED ENOUGH TO LEAVE THE FORECAST DRY INTO THE WEEKEND. THE ECMWF AND AVN EXTENSION ARE IN DISAGREEMENT ON THE TIMING OF THE NEXT SHORTWAVE TO AFFECT OUR AREA ON EITHER SUNDAY OR MONDAY. HPC GUIDANCE HAS LEANED MORE TOWARD THE MORE PROGRESSIVE AVN, WHICH APPEARS REASONABLE AT THIS TIME. THUS, WE WILL MENTION A CHANCE OF THUNDER SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY, WITH A DRY FORECAST THEREAFTER. .OMA...NONE. MEAD
IAZ043-055-056-069-079-080-090-091-NEZ011-012-015>018-030>034- 042>045-050>053-065>068-078-088>093-130200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE 525 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002 STORM SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING ACROSS PARTS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA. TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR AREAS OF EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA UNTIL9 PM CDT. THE MAIN AREA OF CONCERN IS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM PETERSBURG NEBRASKA TO ONAWA IOWA. A VERY UNSTABLE AND MOIST AIR MASS WAS LOCATED ACROSS THE AREA WITH SURFACE BOUNDARIES. IN ADDITION AN UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE WAS MOVING ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS EASTERN NEBRASKA AND SOUTHWEST IOWA THIS EVENING. BASED ON STRONG INSTABILITY AND WIND SHEAR...SOME TORNADOES ALONG WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY THIS EVENING. BECAUSE OF HIGH MOISTURE IN THE ATMOSPHERE SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY ALSO DROP HEAVY RAIN WHICH COULD RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. A MORE STABLE AND DRIER AIR MASS WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA LATER TONIGHT WITH NO ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER EXPECTED THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGIC AND CLIMATIC INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/OAX OR AT WEATHER.GOV (LOWER CASE). GW
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
750 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0428 PM 2 E DAVEY NE .88 INCH HAIL
06/12/02 LANCASTER REPORTED BY HAM RADIO
OPERATOR.
0445 PM GREENWOOD NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/02 CASS REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0445 PM GREENWOOD NE 80 MPH TSTM GUST
06/12/02 CASS REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0455 PM DUNCAN NE .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/02 PLATTE REPORTED BY COOPERATIVE
OBSERVER.
0510 PM 1 NE GREENWOOD NE WIND DAMAGE
06/12/02 CASS LARGE BARN BLOWN DOWN.
REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
MANAGEMENT.
0510 PM 2 S GREENWOOD NE WIND DAMAGE
06/12/02 CASS ROOF BLOWN OFF OF BIG N
MOTEL AT I-80
INTERCHANGE. REPORTED
BY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
0518 PM BELLWOOD NE 1.75 INCH HAIL
06/12/02 BUTLER REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0543 PM 6 N DAVID CITY NE .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/02 BUTLER REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0552 PM 1 S FREMONT NE .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/02 DODGE OCCURRED AT ENGLEWOOD.
REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0619 PM 2 N UTICA NE 1.25 INCH HAIL
06/12/02 SEWARD REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0703 PM 1 NE COIN IA .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/02 PAGE ALSO ESTIMATED 60 MPH
WINDS BROKE TREE LIMBS.
REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0713 PM SHAMBAUGH IA .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/02 PAGE ALSO BROKEN TREE LIMBS
FROM HIGH WINDS.
REPORTED BY PUBLIC.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
930 PM CDT WED JUN 12 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0745 PM 8 W SCRIBNER NE 1 INCH HAIL
06/12/02 DODGE REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0800 PM SCHUYLER NE .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/02 COLFAX REPORTED BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.
0817 PM 6 S MORSE BLUFF NE .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/02 SAUNDERS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.
0824 PM 5 N PRAGUE NE .75 INCH HAIL
06/12/02 SAUNDERS REPORTED BY PUBLIC.The Omaha radar (KOAX), 58 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:52 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A ham radio operator estimated a thunderstorm wind gust of around 60 mph. The winds were accompanied by hail up to an inch and quarter in diameter.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Iowa in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, June 2002
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5303935.