Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1988, 3:37 PM MDT for Scotts Bluff County, Sioux County, Nebraska. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 1988, 3:37 PM MDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1988, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 68 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 12:00Z, 9.6 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
- 812 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 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 132137
SVRBFF
NEC165-157-132245-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE
337 PM MDT MON JUN 13 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA
SOUTHERN SIOUX...NORTHWEST SCOTTS BLUFF
AT 336 PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 18 MILES WEST OF SCOTTSBLUFF
NEBRASKA...JUST SOUTH OF HENRY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN
HOUR. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM NEAR HAWK
SPRINGS WYOMING.
BE PREPARED FOR LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND...HEAVY RAIN AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING BY TAKING COVER. STAY AWAY FROM AREAS WHERE
LOOSE ITEMS CAN BECOME DANGEROUS FLYING DEBRIS.
THESE STORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE
OR NO WARNING...SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT.
PFEIFFERWhat 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 13, 12:14 PM MDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 1215 PM MDT MON JUN 13 1988 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING UNTIL 700 PM MDT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER SOUTHEAST WYOMING AT 1210 PM. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALSO FORMING JUST SOUTH OF WYOMING...ALONG THE FRONT RANGE IN NORTHERN COLORADO. ALL OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND INTENSIFY DURING THE AFTERNOON. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PEOPLE IN SOUTH&EAST WYOMING SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY FOR THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE SHOULD A THUNDERSTORM APPROACH YOUR AREA. HATTEN
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 1:05 PM MDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 105 PM MDT MON JUN 13 1988 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR THE COUNTIES OF SIOUX... SCOTTS BLUFF...BANNER AND KIMBALL OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING. AT 100 PM MDT ISOLATED RAIN SHOWERS WERE IN THE NORTHERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVELOPING ALONG THE FRONT RANGES OF COLORADO AND WYOMING. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS TODAY. STAY TO TUNED TO RADIO...TV OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER DEVELOPMENTS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY SHOULD A THUNDERSTORM APPROACH YOUR AREA. ELSON
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 2:44 PM MDT, 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 243 PM MDT MON JUN 13 1988 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR THE COUNTIES OF SIOUX... SCOTTS BLUFF...BANNER AND KIMBALL OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING. AT 240 PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ON THE WYOMING STATE LINE 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HARRISON NEBRASKA OR 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHADRON NEBRASKA. THESE STORMS WERE DEVELOPING AHEAD OF A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SIOUX COUNTY MAY HAVE STRONG WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND SM&ALL HAIL THROUGH 4 PM MDT THIS AFTN AS THE STORMS BEGIN TO MOVE INTO THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. ELSON
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 3:21 PM MDT, 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 322 PM MDT MON JUN 13 1988 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES FOR THE COUNTIES OF SIOUX... SCOTTS BLUFF...BANNER AND KIMBALL OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING. AT 318 PM MDT THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP ALONG THE WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. A GROUP OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS IN NORTHERN SIOUX COUNTY AROUND HARRISON NEBRASKA. A LINE EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KIMBALL NEBRASKA UP TO 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF SCOTTSBLUFF NEBRASKA. SIOUX COUNTY AND THE WESTERN PARTS OF SCOTTOS BLUFF...BANNER AND KIMBALL COUNTIES SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL THROUGH 430 PM MDT AS THESE STORMS MOVE IN TO THE PANHANDLE. ELSON
Local storm report, Jun 13, 3:33 PM MDT, 4 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
330 PM MDT MON JUN 13 1988
TIME EVENT/LOCATION
1155 AM MDT ONE QUARTER INCH DIAMETER HAIL AT CENTENNIAL IN
ALBANY COUNTY.
105 PM MDT ONE QUARTER INCH DIAMETER HAIL AND GUSTS TO 45 MPH
AT LARAMIE IN ALBANY COUNTY.
105 PM MDT ONE QUARTER INCH DIAMETER HAIL AT BUFORD IN LARAMIE
COUNTY.
107 PM MDT ONE QUARTER INCH DIAMETER HAIL AT SYBILLE RESEARCH
STATION IN PLATTE COUNTY.
140 PM MDT THREE EIGHTHS INCH DIAMETER HAIL ON SUMMIT ON
INTERSTATE 80 BETWEEN LARAMIE AND CHEYENNE.
200 PM MDT FUNNEL CLOUD 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHEYENNE.
205 PM MDT ONE QUARTER INCH DIAMETER HAIL AT WARREN AFB.
208 PM MDT TORNADO ON GROUND 6 MILES SOUTH OF CHUGWATER IN
PLATTE COUNTY. NO DAMAGE REPORTED.
210 PM MDT ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL IN WESTERN CHEYENNE AND
AT WSFO CHEYENNE.
212 PM MDT TORNADO ON GROUND ON PLATTE AND LARAMIE COUNTY
BORDERS NEARG INTERSTATE 25.
215 PM MDT MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT WSFO CHEYENNE.
220 PM MDT MARBLE SIZE HAIL AT MIDWEST IN NATRONA COUNTY.
230 PM MDT ONE QUARTER INCH HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN AT WHEATLAND.
235 PM MDT ONE HAL INCH DIAMETER HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH
AT CHUGWATER.
240 PM MDT ONE HALF INCH TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL SEVEN MILES
MILES SOUTH OF CHUGWATER.
250 PM MDT MISSILE SITE BETWEEN CHUGWATER AND HAWK SPRINGS
REOORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD AND WUIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH.
250 PM MDT GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL COVERWD THE GROUND 3 MILES
NORTHWEST OF HAWK SPRINGS IN GOSHEN COUNTY.
WEILANDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Scotts Bluff | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 7:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte, Dawes | 66 min |
| Jun 13, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Dawes, Sioux | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 5:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte, Sheridan | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 5:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sheridan | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988
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.