Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1990, 7:02 PM MDT for Garden County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 1990, 7:02 PM MDT (01:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 1990, 7:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Garden 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3040 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 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 080102
SVRBFF
NEC069-080200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE
702 PM MDT MON MAY 7 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA
SOUTHERN GARDEN
AT 700 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERDSTORM 5 MILES
WEST OF OSHKOSH NEBRASKA...OR 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF SIDNEY NEBRASKA
IN SOUTHERN GARDEN COUNTY OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. THE STORM WAS
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. AND WILL BE OVER THE CITY OF OSHKOSH
AROUND 710 PM MDT.
PREPARE 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.
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE A REINFORCED
BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT...INTERIOR HALLWAY...
OR Aj ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IS THE SAFEST PLACE IN MOST BUILDINGS.
MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
PLISCHKEWhat 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, May 7, 4:36 PM MDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
WYZALL-080230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 435 PM MDT MON MAY 7 1990 A COLD FRONT WAS PUSHING THROUGH THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF WYOMING LATE THIS AFTERNOON. BRISK NORTH TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR AND MUCH COOLER TEMPERATURES WERE NOTED BEHIND THE FRONT. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED ALONG AND JUST BEHIND THE COLD FRONT IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING AT 415 PM. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NOTED TONIGHT OVER EASTERN WYOMING. SOME RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS WILL ALSO SPREAD INTO FAR NORTHWEST WYOMING LATER TONIGHT. AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL SETTLE OVER WYOMING ON TUESDAY. SHOWERS WILL BECOME LIKELY OVER ALL BUT THE FAR SOUTHWEST PART OF THE STATE BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. THE SHOWERS WILL BE SNOW IN THE MOUNTAINS ON TUESDAY...WITH RAIN CHANGING TO SNOW AT LOWER ELEVATIONS TUESDAY NIGHT. < WITH THE COOL AND SHOWERY WEATHER SETTLING INTO THE STATE...RBANCHERS MAY WISH TO TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT THEIR YOUNG OR WEAK ANIMALS. HATTEN
Special weather statement, May 7, 4:38 PM MDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
NEZ001-080000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 437 PM MDT MON MAY 7 1990 ...A THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED INTO THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... AT 430 PM MT...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES NORTH OF SCOTTSBLUFF NEBRASKA IN SOUTH SIOUX COUNTY OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL ENTER NORTH BOX BUTTE COUNTY AT AROUND 5 PM MDT. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WIND AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM AS IT MOVES ACROSS SIOUX AND BOX BUTTE COUNTIES OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 600 PM MDT. PLISCHKE
Special weather statement, May 7, 4:40 PM MDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
NEZ001-080000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 437 PM MDT MON MAY 7 1990 ...A THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED INTO THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... AT 430 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES NORTH OF SCOTTSBLUFF NEBRASKA IN SOUTH SIOUX COUNTY OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL ENTER NORTH BOX BUTTE COUNTY AT AROUND 5 PM MDT. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WIND AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM AS IT MOVES ACROSS SIOUX AND BOX BUTTE COUNTIES OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 600 PM MDT. PLISCHKE
Special weather statement, May 7, 5:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
NEZ001-005-011-080100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 515 PM MDT MON MAY 7 1990 ...THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS INCREASED ACROSS THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... AT 510 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED THAT MORE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF SIDNEY NEBRASKA IN WESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY...18 MILES NORTHWEST OF SCOTTSBLUFF NEBRASKA IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SIOUX COUNTY...AND 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHADRON NEBRASKA OVER THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF DAWES COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WIND AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS CHEYENNE....SIOUX....AND DAWES COUNTIES OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 700 PM MDT. PLISCHKE
Special weather statement, May 7, 6:41 PM MDT, 21 minutes before
NEZ001-005-011-080200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 640 PM MDT MON MAY 7 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO RUMBLE THROUGH THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... AT 635 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF SCOTTSBLUFF NEBRASKA SOUTH TO 8 MILES EAST OF KIMBALL NEBRASKA. THIS LINE OF STORMS PASSES THROUGH THE COUNTIES OF SOUTHERN SIOUX... SCOTTS BLUFF...BANNER...AND KIMBALL. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE ALSO LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF SIDNEY NEBRASKA IN NORTHEAST CHEYENNE COUNTY...20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALLIANCE NEBRASKA IN MORRILL COUNTY... AND 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHADRON NEBRASKA IN NORTHERN SHERIDAN COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WIND AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 800 PM MDT. PLISCHKUE
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.