Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1990, 5:32 PM MDT for Box Butte County, Nebraska. It was in force for 58 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 16, 1990, 5:32 PM MDT (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1990, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Box Butte 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 6:14 PM MDT | Hail 1.5 | Box Butte, 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 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 162353 COR
SVRBFF
NEC013-170030-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE...CORRECTED COPY
532 PM MDT SAT JUN 16 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA
BOX BUTTE...THE CITY OF ALLIANCE
AT 530 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 25
MILES WEST OF ALLIANCE TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF ALLIANCE. THE STORM
WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
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.
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THESE STORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE
OR NO WARNING...SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A
PLACE OF SAFETY IF ONE IS SPOTTED.
SALMONSWhat 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 16, 12:01 PM MDT, 5 hours 31 minutes before
WYZ013-014-015-161845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 1202 PM MDT SAT JUN 16 1990 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER SOUTHWEST WYOMING FROM EVANSTON EAST TO RAWLINS AT 1155 AM MDT. A FEW OF THE STORM WERE PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS AS THEY MOVED EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. PEA SIZE HAIL WAS NOTED AT THE ROCK SPRINGS AIRPORT AROUND 1125 PM. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER SOUTHWEST WYOMING THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO TO A SAFE PLACE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. HATTEN
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:49 PM MDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
NEZ001-005-011-162300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 345 PM MDT SAT JUN 16 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... AT 344 PM MDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 40 MILES WEST OF SINEY NEBRASKA NEAR KIMBALL...AND 35 MILES NORTH OF SCOTTSBLUFF NEBRASKA TO THE NORTH OF WATSON RANCH. THE STOR,S WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTdY WIND AND SMALL HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS SIOUX...KIMBALL...AND PARTS OF BANNER COUNTIES OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 500 PM MDT. PFEIFFER
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 4:35 PM MDT, 57 minutes before
NEZ001-005-011-162330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 435 PM MDT SAT JUN 16 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... AT 430 PM MDT...RADAR HAD INDACATED STRONG THUNDERSTOMRS MOVING ACROSS WESTERN PART OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED 30 MILES WEST OF SINEY NEBRASKA NEAR KIMBALL...15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCOTTSBLUFF NEBRASKA...35 MILES WEST OF CHARDON AND 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHADRON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND AND SMALL HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS SIOUX...SCOTTS BLUFF...BANNER...KIMBALL... DAWES AND BOX BUTTE COUNTIES OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 530 PM MDT. SALMONS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 6:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Kimball | 41 min |
| Jun 15, 6:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 41 min |
| Jun 15, 7:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 28 min |
| Jun 15, 7:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Garden | 56 min |
| Jun 16, 6:46 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Dawes | 39 min |
| Jun 16, 5:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Dawes | 66 min |
| Jun 16, 5:58 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Dawes | 32 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.