Name: Damaging Winds in Nebraska, September 8, 2002
Start: 2002-09-08T15:45
End: 2002-09-08T16:00
Location: Nebraska

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.

Tornadoes
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Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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.

What forecasters said that day

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 Sep 8, 1:03 PM MST, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 1:03 PM MST, 2 hours 42 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED...ADD TAIL
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTH PLATTE NE
303 PM CDT SUN SEP 8 2002

FORECAST CHALLENGE...FAY AND REMNANTS OF HERNAN

AVN POOR PWS/MOISTURE INITIALIZATION PRODUCES 1-3 RAINFALL CWA WIDE.

FORECAST USES ETA.

WIND ADZY ACROSS NERN ZONES SHOULD COLLAPSE AS 850MB WIND MAX EXITS
FCST AREA LATE THIS AFTN.

TONIGHT-TUESDAY...UPPER DISTURBANCE VCNTY NRN UTAH SHOULD SPARK
CONVECTION OVERNIGHT AS IT MOVES THRU NE WY WRN SD WITH SRN FRINGE
ACROSS NW NEB.  THIS PRESUMABLY WILL PUSH SFC FRONT INTO NW NEB BY
NOON MON.  FRONT DRIFTS SWD TO NEAR LBF BY 21Z WITH NEW ROUND OF
TSRA IGNITING MON AFTN-PM PER ETA.  FRONT WOULD THEN DRIFT TO SRN
NEB BY 12 TUES WITH CONVECTION CONTINUING TO FIRE ACROSS SRN
ZONES...NW KS AND NE COLO THRUOUT THE DAY TUESDAY.

THEREAFTER...SLIGHT CHC SHRA/TSRA SRN ZONES WED WITH FAY RENMANTS
WORKING NWD ACROSS WESTERN HIGH PLAINS?

BEYOND WEDS...WAVE A WET FINGER OR FLING A METEOROLOGICAL WEE-GEE
BOARD AS FAR AS POPS GO.  COOL HIGH PRESSURE REMAINS IN PLACE WITH
MOIST UPPER FLOW.   QUESTION REMAINS ON LOW LEVEL MOISTURE THOUGH.
LEFT THURSDAY-SUNDAY FCST DRY AND COOL FOR NOW.

.LBF...NONE.

CDC

The radar

The North Platte radar (KLNX), 128 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:43 UTC.

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Event by event

2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Keith

When: September 8, 3:45 PM MST
Where: Keith County, Lemoyne
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.283, -101.817

Thunderstorm Wind, Keith

When: September 8, 4:00 PM MST
Where: Keith County, 12 mi NNW of Ogallala
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph)
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 41.300, -101.800

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Nebraska in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Nebraska, September 2002

Sources

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: 5315593, 5315594.