Alert archive / Wyoming / Tornado Warnings in 1988
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 1988, 2:08 PM MDT for Carbon County, Wyoming. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1988, 2:08 PM MDT (20:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1988, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carbon County, WY
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
Lander/Hunt Fiel, WY (KLND), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 2138 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 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 KCYS 082008
TORCYS
WYC007-082115-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
208 PM MDT FRI JUL 8 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF WYOMING
NORTH CENTRAL CARBON COUNTY
AT 203 PM MDT A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND NEAR THE KORTES
DAM...SOME 32 MILES NORTHEAST OF RAWLINS. IT WAS SPOTTED BY A
SHERIFFS DEPUTY AS WELL AS A PILOT.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT
AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
DASELERWhat 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
Local storm report, Jul 8, 8:29 AM MDT, 5 hours 39 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE
828 AM MDT FRI JUL 8 1988
SELS MKC OMA A BFF
TIME EVENT
3 40 PM MDT JIM CUNNINGHAM...A BOX BUTTE COUNTY SPOTTER...STOPPED BY
JUN 29, 19881 THE WSMO OFFICE IN ALLIANCE NEBRASKA THURSDAY EVENING TO
REPORT HE SAW A FUNNEL CLOUD 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALLIANCE
AT APPROXIMATELY 340 PM MDT ON THE 29TH OF JUNE 1988.
ELSONSpecial weather statement, Jul 8, 12:28 PM MDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 1225 PM MDT FRI JUL 8 1988 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTHEAST WYOMING FROM 1 PM UNTIL 9 PM... VERY MOIST AIR REMAINS OVER MUCH OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. WITH PLENTY OF WARMING SUNSHINE THIS MORNING...AND A WEAK UPPER LEVEL WEATHER FEATURE MOVING TOWARDS THE AREA...SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ALREADY AT 1220 PM...SOME MODERATELY STRONG STORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER THE LARAMIE RANGE. THEY WILL LIKELY GET STRONGER AS THEY MOVE EAST AT ABOUT 15 MILES AN HOUR. PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...AND KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION BY LISTENING TO THIS STATION. < IN ADDITION...SOME OF THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN... WHICH WILL CAUSE SMALL STREAMS TO RISE AND FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS. IF YOU ENCOUNTER RAPIDLY RISI|NG WATER...BE READY TO MOVE QUICKLY TO HIGHER GROUND. DASELER
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 1:56 PM MDT, 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 156 PM MDT FRI JUL 8 1988 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING... AT 155 PM MDT...RADAR SHOWED NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. HOWEVER...THUNDERSTORMS WERE FORMING IN EASTERN WYOMING AND COLORADO. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON SKY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES. CONTINUE TO MONITOR THIS STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. ELSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 1:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Laramie | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 2:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Albany | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 3:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Platte | 44 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.