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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 1986, 9:02 PM MDT for Scotts Bluff County, Sioux County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 1986, 9:02 PM MDT (03:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 1986, 9:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2019 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBFF 080302 TORBFF NEC157-165-080330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 902 PM MDT SAT JUN 7 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA...NORTHERN SCOTTS BLUFF AND SOUTHERN SIOUX AT 855 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF MORRILL..OR 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF SCOTTSBLUFF NEBRASKA MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO..YOU SHOULD GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. CARS AND MOBILE HOMES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING. IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF TORNADOES..LARGE HAIL..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. HONTON
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 5 hours 43 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, 3 hours 12 minutes 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 8:37 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 23 min |
Nearby
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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.