Alert archive / Wyoming / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 1989, 4:44 PM MDT for Platte County, Wyoming. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 1989, 4:44 PM MDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 1989, 5:10 PM MDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Platte 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
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 274 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
- 63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 822 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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TTAA00 KCYS 142244
TORCYS
WYC031-142330-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
444 PM MDT MON AUG 14 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING
...CENTRAL PLATTE
AT 433 PM...A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED 5 MILES WEST OF WHEATLAND.
THE FUNNEL CLOUD WAS MOVING NORTHEAST TOWARD THE TOWN OF WHEATLAND.
THE STORM ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FUNNEL WILL PASS THROUGH THE
TOWN OF WHEATLAND BY 450 PM.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENTD IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
SIGLERWhat 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, Aug 14, 12:50 PM MDT, 3 hours 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 1250 PM MDT MON AUG 14 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING OVER THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF WYOMING... SALT LAKE RADAR REPORTED AN INCREASE IN THUNDERSTORMS OVER UINTA COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST WYOMING. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE UPSTREAM APPROACHING THE STATE WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NORTHEAST INTO SOUTHWEST WYOMING AND EAST ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN WYOMING THIS AFTERNON AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL UNTIL SUNSET. LOCAL FLOODING OF SOME CREEKS AND SMALL STREAMS IS POSSIBLE OVER THE SOUTHWEST CORNER WHERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MORE NUMEROUS. IF FLOOD WATERS THREATEN...CLIMB TO HIGHER GROUND. LIGHTNING IS A KNOWN KILLER ...SO BE ALERT AND MOVE INDOORS WHEN THREATENED. LAUZE
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 2:17 PM MDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 216 PM MDT MON AUG 14 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHEASTERN WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON. AT 2 PM THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 25 MILES WEST OF CHEYENNE. ANOTHER AREA WAS 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHEYENNE. THEY WERE MOVING EAST ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL...STRONG WINDS...AND BRIEF HEAVY JRAINS. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER. CGB
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 2:24 PM MDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 216 PM MDT MON AUG 14 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHEASTERN WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON. AT 2 PM THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 25 MILES WEST OF CHEYENNE. ANOTHER AREA WAS 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHEYENNE. THEY WERE MOVING EAST ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL...STRONG WINDS...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS. DLANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER. CGB
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 2:51 PM MDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 250 PM MDT MON AUG 14 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER THE LARAMIE RANGE. AT 245 PM THE STRONGEST STORMS EXTENDED FROM ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF CHEYENNE TO 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHEYENNE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF THE TOWN OF CHUGWATER. THEY WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORVMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL...STRONG WINDS...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. BE ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER...AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IF NECESSARY. CGB
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 4:17 PM MDT, 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 415 PM MDT MON AUG 14 1989 AT 413 PM MDT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST ENTERING THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE FROM WYOMING. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 20 MILES WEST OF SCOTTSBLUFF...SOUTH OF STEGALL...AND 23 MILES WEST OF SCOTTSBLUFF ON THE STATELINE...SOUTHWEST OF STEGALL. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST BETWEEN 15 AND 20 MILES AN HOUR. HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS ACROSS SCOTTS BLUFF AND NORTHERN BANNER COUNTIES OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 530 PM MDT. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 45 MILES NORTH OF CHADRON NEBRASKA...NEAR HOT SPRINGS SOUTH DAKOTA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR AND MAY ENTER DAWES AND SHERIDAN COUNTIES AROUND 6PM MDT. PFEIFFER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 3:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Goshen, Platte | 39 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.