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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Cheyenne, WY

June 15, 1990Cheyenne County, Kimball County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1990, 3:23 AM MDT for Cheyenne County, Kimball County, Nebraska. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 15, 1990, 3:23 AM MDT (09:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1990, 4:05 AM MDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cheyenne County, NE, Kimball 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

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 149 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 962 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2454 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 409 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBFF 150923
SVRBFF
NEC105-033-151030-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE
323 AM MDT FRI JUN 15 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 AM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA
      EASTERN KIMBALL...WESTERN CHEYENNE

AT 322 AM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES
EAST OF KIMBALL NEBRASKA...OR 23 MILES WEST OF SIDNEY NEBRASKA
IN EASTERN KIMBALL AND EXTREME WESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTIES OF THE
SOUTHERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE.  THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

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 A ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IS THE SAFEST PLACE IN MOST BUILDINGS.
MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED EARLIER
FOR EASTERN KIMBALL COUNTY OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE.

PLISCHKE

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 14, 9:42 PM MDT, 5 hours 41 minutes before

NEZ001-005-011-150500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE
940 PM MDT WED JUN 14 1990

...TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL MIDNIGHT ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND
SOUTH NEBRASKA PANHANDLE...
...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING OVER THE SOUTH NEBRASKA PANHANDLE...

AT 935 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS CONTINUED OVER THE SOUTH
NEBRASKA PANHANDLE...FROM NEAR SIDNEY NEBRASKA TO 55 MILES WEST OF
SIDNEY NEBRASKA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

THE STRONGEST OF THE STORMS WAS LOCATED 25 MILES NORTHWEST AND 50 MILES
WEST OF SIDNEY NEBRASKA...OR 20 MILES NORTHEAST AND 25 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF KIMBALL NEBRASKA.

BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING IS LIKELY WITH
THE PASSAGE OF THE STRONGER STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS KIMBALL AND
CHEYENNE COUNTIES OF THE SOUTH NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 1100 PM MDT.
WIRTH

Special weather statement, Jun 15, 12:13 AM MDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

WYZ017-150700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
1214 AM MDT FRI JUN 15 1990

A FEW THUNDERSTORMS LINGERED ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHERN LARAMIE COUNTY
THIS MORNING. AT 1210 AM MDT THE STRONGEST STORM WAS ABOUT 5 MILES
WEST OF THE CARPENTER...OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHEYENNE.
STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 2 AM...AND A FEW MAY PRODUCE
BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIQL.

MENTZER

Local storm report, Jun 15, 12:24 AM MDT, 2 hours 59 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE
1225 AM MDT FRI JUN 15 1990

SELS MKC OMA A BFF    ...DATA FROM JUN 14...

TIME         EVENT

724  PM MDT  FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED BY THE KIMBALL COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE
             5 TO 6 MILES INSIDE THE COLORADO BORDER NEAR U.S. HIGHWAY
             71...APPROXIMATELY 50 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF SIDNEY
             NEBRASKA.
745  PM MDT  KIMBALL COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL
             5 MILES WEST OF KIMBALL NEBRASKA...OR 40 MILES WEST OF
             SIDNEY NEBRASKA...KIMBALL COUNTY.
750  PM MDT  KIMBALL COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL
             5 MILES NORTH OF KIMBALL NEBRASKA...OR 40 MILES WEST OF
             SIDNEY NEBRASKA...KIMBALL COUNTY.
WIRTH

Special weather statement, Jun 15, 2:26 AM MDT, 57 minutes before

NEZ011-150930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE
225 AM MDT FRI JUN 15 1990

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED INTO THE SOUTHERN NEBRASKA
PANHANDLE...

AT 220 AM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN THE
SOUTHERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE.  THE STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES WEST OF
KIMBALL NEBRASKA...OR 40 MILES WEST OF SIDNEY NEBRASKA IN WESTERN
KIMBALL COUNTY AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.  THE STORM WILL BE
OVERJ THE CITY OF KIMBALL BETWEEN 230 AM AND 245 AM MDT.

BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM AS IT MOVES ACROSS KIMBALL COUNTY INTO CHEYENNE COUNTY OF THE
NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 330 AM MDT.
PLISCHKE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 7:32 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	CYS	Kimball	28 min
Jun 15, 2:58 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Kimball	62 min
Jun 15, 3:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Cheyenne, Deuel	54 min
Jun 15, 4:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Deuel	45 min
Jun 15, 4:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Scotts Bluff	63 min
Jun 15, 5:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Banner, Kimball, Scotts Bluff	67 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.