Alert archive / Wyoming / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Cheyenne, WY

June 7, 1986Goshen County, Wyoming

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1986, 7:50 PM MDT for Goshen County, Wyoming. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1986, 7:50 PM MDT (01:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1986, 8:45 PM MDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area
Whole counties

County Goshen County, WY

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 7, 3:19 PM MDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
320 PM MDT SAT JUN 7 1986

AT 315 PM CHEYENNE WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ABOUT
TO MOVE INTO THE WHEATLAND AREA SOME 65 MILES NORTH OF CHEYENNE.

STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...AND EVEN SOME SMALL HAIL ARE
POSSIBLE AS THIS STORM MOVES NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
PEOPLE NEAR WHEATLAND SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THIS STORM AND BE
READY TO TAKE ANY NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE BUILDING ALONG THE LARAMIE RANGE IN SOUTHEAST
WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON...BUT WERE STILL RATHER WEAK.

DASELER
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 5:50 PM MDT, 2 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
550 PM MDT SAT JUN 7 1986

AT 545 PM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT CHEYENNE INDICATED A
COUPLE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF WHEATLAND
WYOMING...OR SOME 100 MILES NORTH OF CHEYENNE.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN LARAMIE PEAK NORTHWEST OF WHEATLAND AND
GLENDO IN NORTHWEST PLATTE COUNTY.  STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY
RAINS...AND SOME SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE FROM THESE STORMS AS THEY
MOVE NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR.

PEOPLE NEAR THE TOWN OF GLENDO AND THOSE USING GLENDO RESERVOIR SHOULD
BE READY TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES.

HATTEN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 8:37 PM MDTTornado WarningCYSScotts Bluff, Sioux23 min
Jun 7, 9:02 PM MDTTornado WarningCYSScotts Bluff, Sioux28 min
Jun 7, 6:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSPlatte45 min
Jun 7, 6:58 PM MDTTornado WarningCYSGoshen, Platte47 min
Jun 7, 8:20 PM MDTTornado WarningCYSGoshen40 min
Jun 8, 2:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSPlatte47 min
Jun 8, 5:08 PM MDTTornado WarningCYSLaramie52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wyoming, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text.