Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Cheyenne, WY

June 13, 1988Sheridan County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1988, 5:44 PM MDT for Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 1988, 5:44 PM MDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1988, 6:30 PM MDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area
Whole counties

County Sheridan County, NE

The radar

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

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 13, 5:45 PM MDTHail 1.75Sheridan, NE

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 178 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 1988-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 1988-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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 13, 12:14 PM MDT, 5 hours 30 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, 4 hours 39 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, 3 hours 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, 2 hours 23 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, 2 hours 11 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.

WEILAND
Special weather statement, Jun 13, 5:15 PM MDT, 29 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 6:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSScotts Bluff60 min
Jun 12, 7:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBox Butte, Dawes66 min
Jun 13, 3:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSScotts Bluff, Sioux68 min
Jun 13, 3:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSDawes, Sioux62 min
Jun 13, 5:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBox Butte, Sheridan62 min
Jun 13, 12:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSAlbany, Laramie, Platte68 min
Jun 13, 1:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSLaramie, Platte62 min
Jun 13, 2:21 PM MDTTornado WarningCYSLaramie, Platte39 min
Jun 13, 2:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSGoshen56 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.