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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Cheyenne, WY

July 5, 1990Sheridan County, Wyoming

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1990, 6:41 PM MDT for Sheridan County, Wyoming. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 1990, 6:41 PM MDT (00:41 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1990, 7:45 PM MDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area
Whole counties

County Sheridan 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

Lander/Hunt Fiel, WY (KLND), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 263 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lander/Hunt Fiel, WY at 00:00Z on 1990-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2199 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lander/Hunt Fiel, WY at 00:00Z on 1990-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2199 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2563 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
7.3

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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, Jul 5, 2:13 PM MDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
WYZ016-052045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
210 PM MDT THU JUL 5 1990

A FEW STRONG STORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN SOUTH CENTRAL WYOMING AT 2 PM.

THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED IN FAR NORTHEAST CARBON COUNTY ABOUT
10 MILES WEST OF SHIRLEY BASIN...SOME 40 MILES SOUTH OF CASPER.  THIS
STORM HAS NOT MOVED VERY MUCH IN THE LAST HOUR...AS IT HAS DRIFTED
NORTHEAST NEAR STATE HIGHWAY 77.  THE STORM WAS LIKELY PRODUCING SMALL
HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN.

OTHER WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN EASTERN CARBON
AND WESTERN ALBANY COUNTIES AT 2 PM.  THESE STORMS WERE ALSO TENDING
TO DRIFT NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 10 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR.

HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE THE MAIN THREATS
FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS.  LOCAL FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND NORMALLY
DRY WASHES COULD OCCUR OVER CARBON AND ALBANY COUNTIES THE REST OF THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...GO TO A
SAFE PLACE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

DASELER

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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.