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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1986, 7:06 PM MDT for Box Butte County, Scotts Bluff County, Sioux County, Nebraska. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 1986, 7:06 PM MDT (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1986, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Box Butte County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sioux 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
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 1228 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1957 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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, Aug 3, 2:34 PM MDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 230 PM MDT SUN AUG 3 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM MDT FOR ENTIRE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... AT 230 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHADRON NEBRASKA...NEAR HOT SPRINGS SOUTH DAKOTA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE NORTHERN PORTIONS OF DAWES AND SHERIDAN COUNTIES OF THE PANHANDLE AROUND 4PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WIND AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 463 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 9PM MDT SUNDAY EVENING. PF EIFFER
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 3:44 PM MDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 343 PM MDT SUN AUG 3 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM MDT FOR ENTIRE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... AT 340 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG THE FRONT RANGE OF THE ROCKIES...FROM NEAR FORT COLLINS COLORADO NORTHWARD TO EAST OF CASPER AND NEAR NEWCASTLE WYOMING. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR AND ARE NOT EXPECTED TO ENTER THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL AFTER 5PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON. ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWERS IN THE SOUTHERN BLACK HILLS NEAR HOT SPRINGS SOUTH DAKOTA WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER n463 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 9PM MDT SUNDAY EVENING. PFEIFFER
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 4:40 PM MDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 440 PM MDT SUN AUG 3 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM MDT FOR ENTIRE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... AT 435 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT RANGE OF THE ROCKIES...FROM EAST OF FORT COLLINS COLORADO NORTHWARD TO DOUGLAS AND NEAR NEWCASTLE WYOMING. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR AND ARE NOT EXPECTED TO ENTER THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL AFTER 6PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON. ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWERS IN THE BLACK HILLS NEAR RAPID CITY SOUTH DAKOTA WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSHOWERS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG THE PINE RIDGE IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE NEAR CRAWFORD. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 463 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 9PM MDT SUNDAY EVENING. PFEIFFER
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 5:45 PM MDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 545 PM MDT SUN AUG 3 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM MDT FOR ENTIRE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... AT 440 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN EASTERN WYOMING BETWEEN CHEYENNE AND LARAMIE NORTHWARD TO NEAR DOUGLAS AND LUSK WYOMING. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WERE EXPECTED TO ENTER THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AFTER 6PM MDT THIS EVENING. ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWERS IN SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA EAST OF RAPID CITY WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSHOWERS WERE IN THE NORTHWESTERN PANHANDLE ALONG THE PINE RIDGE WEST OF CRAWFORD. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 463 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 9PM MDT SUNDAY EVENING. PFEIFFER
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 5:47 PM MDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 545 PM MDT SUN AUG 3 1986 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM MDT FOR ENTIRE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... AT 540 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED IN EASTERN WYOMING BETWEEN CHEYENNE AND LARAMIE NORTHWARD TO NEAR DOUGLAS AND LUSK WYOMING. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WERE EXPECTED TO ENTER THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AFTER 6PM MDT THIS EVENING. ISOLATED THUNDERSHOWERS IN SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA EAST OF RAPID CITY WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSHOWERS WERE IN THE NORTHWESTERN PANHANDLE ALONG THE PINE RIDGE WEST OF CRAWFORD. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 463 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 9PM MDT SUNDAY EVENING. PFEIFFER
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 6:43 PM MDT, 23 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 6:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sioux | 59 min |
| Aug 3, 7:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Cheyenne | 54 min |
| Aug 3, 10:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sheridan | 26 min |
| Aug 4, 3:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sheridan | 39 min |
| Aug 3, 6:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Goshen, Platte | 50 min |
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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.