1 lightning, 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 North Platte, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 8, 12:10 AM CST, 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 110 AM CDT SAT JUN 08 2002 MAIN CHALLENGE WILL BE TEMPERATURES NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS AND FRONTAL POSITION ON MONDAY. FIRST CONCERN IS WHEN ONGOING MCS WILL EXIT FA THIS MORNING. CURRENT 40-50KT LLJ IS EXPECTED TO LAST THROUGH 15Z BEFORE WEAKENING ENOUGH TO KILL THREAT OF CONVECTION. FOR THIS REASON WILL KEEP MENTION OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH EARLY THIS MORNING. AFTER THIS... WEATHER PATTERN FOR LBF CWA TURNS HOT AND DRY FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS AS UPPER FLOW BACKS TO THE SOUTHWEST IN RESPONSE TO LOW DIGGING ACROSS INTERMOUNTAIN WEST. THIS SHOULD PUSH STALLED OUT FRONT BACK NORTH INTO THE DAKOTAS AND BRING VERY WARM 700MB TEMPERATURES OVER FA. FULLY EXPECT TEMPERATURES FROM THE LOWER 90S NORTH TO NEAR 100 SOUTH. ETA HINTS AT SOME WEAK MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND LOW CIN ACROSS FAR NE CORNER OF FA IN THE AFTERNOON AND CANT RULE OUT AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM. HOWEVER...WITH LACK OF FORCING AND RELATIVELY STRONG CAP ELSEWHERE WILL NOT MENTION ANY CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR REMAINDER OF CWA. NOT MUCH CHANGES INTO SUNDAY AS UPPER LOW MOVES LITTLE AND LOW-LEVEL FORCING REMAINS NORTH OF FA EXCEPT IN FAR NORTHWEST CORNER WHERE SURFACE TROUGH IS LOCATED. EXPECT SOME ISOLATED CONVECTION TO DEVELOP BY LATE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING ACROSS THIS AREA...BUT REMAINDER OF FA WILL BE DRY. WITH NO CHANGE IN AIRMASS WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES ESSENTIALLY THE SAME EXCEPT SLIGHTLY WARMER IN NORTH. MODELS START TO DIVERGE ON EXACT POSITIONING OF FRONT/TROUGH ON MONDAY. AVN IS MUCH QUICKER AT PUSHING FRONT THROUGH FA INTO EASTERN NEBRASKA BY 00Z. ON THE OTHER HAND THE ETA KEEPS THE FRONT FROM CLEARING EASTERN THIRD OF FA BY 00Z. THIS RESULTS IN A BIG DIFFERENCE IN TEMPERATURES AND PRECIP CHANCES. GUT FEELING IS THAT FRONT WILL HAVE A HARDER TIME MAKING IT AS FAR AS AVN IS FORECASTING AND WILL ADJUST TEMPERATURES UP CLOSER TO ETA AND MENTION CHANCE OF TSRA. TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...NO CHANGES AT THIS TIME. .LBF...NONE. AWJ
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE, NE
804 PM CDT FRI JUN 7 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0803 PM SUTHERLAND NE WIND GUST
06/07/02 LINCOLN
0759 AM SUTHERLAND NE WIND GUST
06/07/02 LINCOLN
IZZIPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE, NE
834 PM CDT FRI JUN 7 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0818 PM 5 ESE ELLSWORTH NE .75 IN HAIL
06/07/02 SHERIDAN
MPPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE, NE
837 PM CDT FRI JUN 7 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0830 PM NORTH PLATTE NE WIND DAMAGE
06/07/02 LINCOLN POWER LINES DOWN IN
NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE
CITY
MPPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE, NE
920 PM CDT FRI JUN 7 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0917 PM 1 W INMAN NE 1.00 IN HAIL
06/07/02 HOLT
MPPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE, NE
954 PM CDT FRI JUN 7 2002
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0740 PM 6 NW PAXTON NE .75 IN HAIL
06/07/02 KEITH
0800 PM 16 N SUTHERLAND NE 1.00 IN HAIL
06/07/02 LINCOLN
MPNEZ005>010-022>029-035>038-056>059-069-094-080500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE 1057 PM CDT FRI JUN 7 2002 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA... A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS GENERALLY EAST OF A CODY TO BROKEN BOW LINE HAS SHOWN A WEAKENING TREND IN THE LAST COUPLE OF HOURS. ALTHOUGH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE NO WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT. IN ADDITION NO OTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT WEST OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED LINE. FOR THESE REASONS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #397 IN EFFECT FOR BOYD...HOLT... GARFIELD...WHEELER...KEYA PAHA...ROCK...BROWN...BLAINE...LOUP... CUSTER...EASTERN CHERRY...WESTERN CHERRY...GRANT...HOOKER...THOMAS... ARTHUR...MCPHERSON...LOGAN...KEITH...LINCOLN...PERKINS...CHASE... GARDEN AND DEUEL COUNTIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 11 PM CDT (10 PM MDT).
The North Platte radar (KLNX), 131 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:58 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Fire...initiated by a lightning strike...destroyed a home.
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: 5293755.