Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1990, 5:23 PM MDT for Box Butte County, Nebraska. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 1990, 5:23 PM MDT (23:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 1990, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 67 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 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
- 337 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1804 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KBFF 022323
SVRBFF
NEC013-030030-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE
523 PM MDT THU AUG 2 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA
BOX BUTTE
AT 522 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 24 MILES NORTHWEST OF
ALLIANCE NEBRASKA NEAR THE HEMINGFORD JUNCTION ABOUT 10 MILES WEST
OF HEMINGFORD. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR.
THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE TOWN OF HEMINGFORD NEBRASKA.
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.
GIVE REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
PFEIFFERWhat 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, Aug 2, 1:36 PM MDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before
WYZ012-016 017-022030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 140 PM MDT THU AUG 2 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEGUN IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING... AT 140 PM...RADAR AND SATELLITE SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE LARAMIE RANGE WEST OF CHEYENNE BETWEEN LARAMIE AND CASPER. NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS NOTED. HOWEVER...AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP...THEY COULD PRODUCE PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MILES AN HOUR...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR SO...CHEYENNE...CHUGWATER...CASPER AND TOWNS TO THE EAST WILL COME UNDER THE THUNDERSTORM THREAT. PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING SHOULD KEEP A WATCHFUL EYE ON THE SKMY AND SEEK INDOOR SHELTER AS THUNDERSTORMS GET CLOSE. REMEMBER... LIGHTNING IS A LEADING CAUSE OF WEATHER-RELATED INJURIES AND FATALITIES. SANDERS
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:14 PM MDT, 3 hours 9 minutes before
WYZ012-016 017-022100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 215 PM MDT THU AUG 2 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING... AT 200 PM...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CHEYENNE PRODUCED WIND GUSTS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. MODERATE RAIN FELL BUT NO HAIL WAS OBSERVED. HOWEVER...FREQUENT LIGHTNING DID OCCUR. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OBSERVED ON RADAR BETWEEN CHEYENNE AND LARAMIE WITH OTHER SCATTERED STORMS NORTH ALONG INTERSTATE 80 TO THE WHEATLAND AREA. AT 210 PM ONE OF THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS NORTHWEST OF WHEATLAND MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST. PEOPLE IN THE WHEATLAND AREA CAN EXPECT BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING FROM NOW UNTIL ABOUT 300 PM MDT. EVERYONE SHOULD RESPECT LIGHTNING AND THE THREAT OF HAIL AND SHOULD MOVE IN DOORS WHEN THE STORMS APPROACH. SANDERS
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:58 PM MDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
WYZ012-016 017-022130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 300 PM MDT THU AUG 2 1990 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE CONTINUING OVER SOUTHEAST WYOMING... AT 300 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ALONG INTERSTATE 25 BETWEEN CHEYENNE AND CASPER. THE STORNGEST STORMS WERE ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF CHEYENNE AND ANOTHER WAS JUST MOVING OVER WHEATLAND. THEY WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. RADAR INDICATES THAT THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA TO MARBLE-SIZED HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. OVER THE NEXT HOUR...THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO GOSHEN AND EAST LARAMIE COUNTIES WHICH ARE ALONG THE NEBRASKA BORDER IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING. < KEEP A WATCHFULL AND RESPECTFULL EYE ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND SEEK INDOOR SHELTER AS THESE STORMS APPROACH. CAS
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 4:04 PM MDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
WYZ012-016 017-022300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 405 PM MDT THU AUG 2 1990 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUTES UNTIL 445 PM MDT FOR SOUTHEAST PLATTE AND SOUTH GOSHEN COUNTIES.... AT 405 PM MDT...AN OBSERVER JUST EAST OF WHEATLAND REPORTED WINDS OF 55 MILES AN HOUR AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. WHEATLAND IS ABOUT 65 MILES NORTH OF CHEYENNE IN PLATTE COUNTY. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF PLATTE COUNTY JUST EAST OF CHUGWATER AND WILL MOVE ALONG THE EXTREME NORTH PORTION OF LARAMIE COUNTY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE WINDS OVER 55 MILES AN HOUR. THEY CAN AND SOMETIMES DO PRODCUE SMALL TORNADOES. PEOPLE IN THE TOWNS OF VETERN...YODER...HAWK SPRINGS...AND LA GRANGE SHOULD SEEK SHELTER OVER THE NEXT HOUR OR SO AS THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INTO THE AREA. SANDERS
Special weather statement, Aug 2, 5:16 PM MDT, 7 minutes before
NEZ001-005-011-030130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 512 PM MDT THU AUG 2 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS WERE OVER THE NORTHWEST HALF OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. AT 510 PM MDT...THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF ALLIANCE NEBRASKA NEAR THE HEMINGFORD JUNCTION TO THE WEST OF HEMINGFORD...AND 15 MILES NORTH OF SCOTTSBLUFF TO THE EAST OF HIGHWAY 71 IN SIOUX COUNTY. THE STORMS WEE MOVING EAST AROUND 10 MILES AN HOUR. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG SHIFTING WINDS...AND SOME HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS IN SIOUX...BOX BUTTE...SCOTTS BLUFF...DAWES...AND SHERIDAN COUNTIES UNTIL 730 PM MDT THIS EVENING. PFEIFFER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 6:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sheridan | 48 min |
| Aug 1, 6:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Dawes | 32 min |
| Aug 1, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sheridan | 36 min |
| Aug 1, 8:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sheridan | 38 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.