Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1986, 7:38 PM MDT for Banner County, Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1986, 7:38 PM MDT (01:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1986, 8:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Banner County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 207 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 460 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2041 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBFF 090138 SVRBFF NEC007-105-157-090245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 738 PM MDT SUN JUN 8 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA...BANNER...KIMBALL...SCOTTS BLUFF...THE CITIES OF SCOTTSBLUFF AND GERING AND THE CITY OF KIMBALL AT 731 PM MDT..RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES WEST..TO 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SCOTTSBLUFF NEBRASKA..THEN EXTENDING SOUTH TO NEAR BUSHNELL..OR 10 MILES WEST OF KIMBALL NEBRAKSA. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH..LARGE HAIL..DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN THAT CAN QUICKLY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS. THESE STORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING..SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF ONE IS SPOTTED. HONTON
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 8, 3:56 PM MDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 355 PM MDT SUN JUN 8 1986 A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING UNTIL 8 PM. AT 350 PM...WEATHER RADAR AT CHEYENNE SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING. NONE OF THE STORMS APPEARED TO BE SEVERE... AND NO REPORTS OF ANY SEVERE WEATHER HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTHWEST OF GLENDO...SOME 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOUGLAS. THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING AS THE INITIAL BATCH OF STORMS HAS FORMED AND MOVED NORTHEAST ...ALLOWING FOR MORE SUNSHINE TO WARM UP THE SURFACE AIR. SO...BE ALERT AND KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY DURING THIS TORNADO WATCH. DASELER
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:56 PM MDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 455 PM MDT SUN JUN 8 1986 A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING UNTIL 8 PM. AT 445 PM...WEATHER RADAR AT CHEYENNE SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF PLATTE COUNTY JUST WEST OF GLENDO...SOME 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOUGLAS. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS DEVELOPING IN EASTERN LARAMIE COUNTY JUST WEST OF CARPENTER...ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF CHEYENNE. PEA SIZE HAIL WAS OBSERVED 3 MILES WEST OF CARPENTER AROUND 450 PM. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR. EVEN THOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED...THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SO BE READY TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IS THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. DASELER
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:21 PM MDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 520 PM MDT SUN JUN 8 1986 ...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 8 PM MDT SUNDAY EVENING... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING. HEAVY RAIN..LARGE HAIL..AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE FROM THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AT 515 PM MDT SCATTERED THNUDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER EASTERN WYOMING AND NORTHEAST COLORADO. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AND NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. TWO THUNDERSTORMS WERE 45 MILES SOUTHWEST AND 60 MILES SOUTHWEST SCOTTSBLUFF NEBRASKA..IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. SCATTERED THUNDERSHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG THE NEBRASKA/WYOMING BOARDER..OVER WESTERN BANNER COUNTY IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. THESE THUNDERSHOWERS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 20 MILES AN= HOUR. HONTON
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 6:30 PM MDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 629 PM MDT SUN JUN 8 1986 ...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 8 PM MDT SUNDAY EVENING... AT 626 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCOTTSBLUFF NEBRASKA MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WAS STILL IN SOUTHEASTERN WYOMING..HOWEVER IT SHOULD BEGIN TO MOVE INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF SCOTTS BLUFF AND BANNER COUNTIES OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AROUND 630 PM MDT. HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM IN WESTERN BANNER AND WESTERN SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTIES FROM 630 PM MDT.. UNTIL 730 MPH THIS EVENINxG. HONTON
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 6:37 PM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 629 PM MDT SUN JUN 8 1986 ...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 8 PM MDT SUNDAY EVENING... AT 626 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCOTTSBLUFF NEBRASKA MOVING TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WAS STILL IN SOUTHEASTERN WYOMING..HOWEVER IT SHOULD BEGIN TO MOVE INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF SCOTTS BLUFF AND BANNER COUNTIES OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AROUND 630 PM MDT. HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM IN WESTERN BANNER AND WESTERN SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTIES FROM 630 PM MDT.. UNTIL 730 PM MDT THIS EVENING. HONTON
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 6:58 PM MDT, 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 657 PM MDT SUN JUN 8 1986 ...A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES FOR MUCH OF NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 8 PM MDT SUNDAY EVENING... AT 653 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF KIMBALL..5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCOTTSBLUFF AND 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SIDNEY NEBRASKA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS OVER KIMBALL..BANNER..SCOTTS BLUFF AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING. HONTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Kimball | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.