Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1990, 6:29 PM MDT for Dawes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 16 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1990, 6:29 PM MDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1990, 6:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dawes 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
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 478 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1188 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 16, 3:49 PM MDT, 2 hours 40 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, 1 hour 54 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 16, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sheridan | 30 min |
| Jun 16, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sheridan | 62 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.