4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 25, 12:25 PM MST, 8 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GOODLAND KS 125 PM MDT TUE JUN 25 2002 TSTM CHANCES...TSTM TIMING AND TEMPERATURES ARE THE FORECAST CHALLENGES. TONIGHT...LOW LEVEL UPSLOPE SELY FLOW EXPECTED TO INITIATE TSTMS ACROSS ERN CO...WHICH THEN WILL PROPAGATE SEWD THIS EVENING. WILL INCLUDE HIGHEST POPS ACROSS ERN CO ZONES...DECREASING FURTHER EWRD. STORMS MAY CONTINUE UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT SO WILL PUT IN A TIME DELINEATOR. WED...LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE BOUNDARY APPEARS TO SET UP ACROSS THE SRN HALF OF THE ZONES IN THE AFTERNOON. WILL INCLUDE HIGHEST POPS ACROSS THE SRN ZONES. HIGHS SHOULD BE BACK INTO THE 90S WITH 850 TEMPS NEAR 28C. THU...LOW LEVEL UPSLOPE SELY FLOW SHOULD KEEP TSTMS CONFINED MOSTLY TO THE ERN CO FTHLLS...BUT STORMS MAY DRIFT EWRD ACROSS THE ERN CO ZONES SO WILL GO WITH LOW POPS THERE. HIGHS SHOULD BE A FEW DEGREES WARMER WITH LESS CLOUD COVER. FRI...NON DESCRIPT UPPER FLOW PREVAILS. SELY LOW LEVEL WINDS SHOULD KEEP TSTMS NEAR THE CO FRONT RANGE...SO WILL GO WITH A DRY FORECAST. SAT-TUE...UPPER RIDGING EXPECTED TO KEEP TSTM CHANCES MINIMAL. WITH NO APPARENT BOUNDARIES AND LIMITED MOISTURE...WILL KEEP THESE DAYS DRY. MRF MEX GUIDANCE HIGHS LOOK TOO COOL BASED ON MRF PROGGED 850 MB TEMPERATURES. .GLD...NONE. RUBIN
The Goodland radar (KGLD), 90 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:04 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Street flooding in Benkleman, as well as on highway 34 east and west of Benkleman.
Four to six-inch diameter tree limbs down.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nebraska in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Nebraska, 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: 5305172, 5305173, 5305174, 5305175, 5305176.