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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Cheyenne, WY

May 11, 1991Box Butte County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 1991, 8:02 PM MDT for Box Butte County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 11, 1991, 8:02 PM MDT (02:02 UTC)
Expired
May 11, 1991, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area
Whole counties

County Box Butte County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 1991-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 1991-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 197 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
454 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
26.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBFF 120202
SVRBFF
NEC013-120230-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE
802 PM MDT SAT MAY 11 1991

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA
      NORTHWEST BOX BUTTE

AT 800 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF
ALLIANCE NEBRASKA...OR 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HEMINGFORD.  THE STORM
WAS MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE BOX BUTTE RESERVOIR STATE RECREATION AREA.

PREPARE FOR LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND...HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING BY TAKING COVER.  STAY AWAY FROM AREASB WHERE LOOSE ITEMS
CAN BECOME DANGEROUS FLYING DEBRIS.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
THESE STORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE
OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

PFEIFFER

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, May 11, 3:03 PM MDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before
WYZ012-017-120000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
300 PM MDT SAT MAY 11 1991

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF EXTREME SOUTHEAST
WYOMING UNTIL 9PM...

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST WYOMING UNTIL 9PM
THIS EVENING.  INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE GOSHEN...EASTERN LARAMIE...
SOUTHERN NIOBRARA...AND EASTERN PLATTE COUNTIES.

CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE LUSK...TORRINGTON...GUERNSEYP...AND
PINE BLUFFS.

CHEYENNE AND WHEATLAND ARE NOT...REPEAT...ARE NOT...IN THE WATCH AREA.

PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING ARE ADVISED TO KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST
WEATHER DEVELOPEMENTS THIS EVENING.
CGB
Special weather statement, May 11, 4:45 PM MDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
WYZ006-012-017-120000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
435 PM MDT SAT MAY 11 1991

...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST AND EAST
CENTRAL WYOMING UNTIL 900 PM...

THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH
FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL WYOMING TIL 900 PM.

IN ADDITION...THE EARLIER TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST AND
EAST CENTRAL WYOMING REMAINS IN EFFECT TIL 900 PM. A TORNADO WATCH
MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE FORMATION OF INTENSE
THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES.

AT 420 PM THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OVER WYOMING. THE MORE
INTENSE STORMS WERE OVER THE CENTRAL AND EAST PARTS OF THE STATE. A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS IN THE VICINTITY OF LUSK AT 400 PM AND
ANOTHER INTENSE STORM HAD JUST MOVED INTO THE CASPER AREA. ALL OF THE
STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

ALL OF THE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND EVEN
TORNADOES. HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO OCCUR WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS AND
LOCALIZED URBAN OR LOWLAND FLOODING MAY OCCUR.

PEOPLE IN THE EAST THIRD OF WYOMING THIS EVENING SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...
TAKE IMMEDIATE SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
WEILAND
Special weather statement, May 11, 5:38 PM MDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
WYZ006-012-017-120030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
530 PM MDT SAT MAY 11 1991

...TORNADO WATCHES CONTINUE FOR MUCH OF NORTHEAST TO EXTREME SOUTHEAST
WYOMING TIL 900 PM...

THE PREVIOUSLY ISSUED TORNADO WATCHES FOR EASTERN WYOMING REMAIN IN
EFFECT TIL 900 PM THIS EVENING. ONE TORNADO WATCH IS FOR PARTS OF
SOUTHEAST WYOMING...AND THE OTHER TORNADO WATCH IS FOR MUCH OF
NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL WYOMING.

AT 515 PM THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER CENTRAL WYOMING...MOVING INTO
THE NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST WYOMING. THE MORE INTENSE STORMS WERE
LOCATED FROM NORTH OF LUSK TO 30 MILES NORTH OF CASPER AND DOUGLAS.
ALL OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. AT 444
PM...THREE QUARTER INCH DIAMETER HAIL WAS REPORTED IN CASPER.

THE STORMS HAVE MOVED OUT OF SOUTHERN WYOMING EARLY THIS EVENING.

ALL OF THE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND EVEN
TORNADOES. HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO OCCUR WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS AND
LOCALIZED URBAN OR LOWLAND FLOODING MAY OCCUR.

PEOPLE IN THE EAST THIRD OF WYOMING THIS EVENING SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...
TAKE IMMEDI"ATE SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
WEILAND
Special weather statement, May 11, 6:50 PM MDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
WYZ012-120130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
650 PM MDT SAT MAY 11 1991

...AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF TORRINGTON...

SINCE 630 PM AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPED RAPIDLY BETWEEN LAGRANGE
AND HAWK SPRINGS...ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF TORRINGTON. THE STORM WAS
MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 35 MILES AN HOUR...AND SHOULD MOVE JUST TO THE
WEST OF TORRINGTON BETWEEN 700 AND 730 PM.

THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AS THEY
MOVE NORTH.

PEOPLE IN THE CITIES OF HAWK SPRINGS...LAGRANGE...YODER AND VETERAN
SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THIS INTENSE STORM. TAKE APPROPRIATE SHELTER
WHEN THE STORM APPROACHES.
WEILAND

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 11, 6:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSDawes40 min
May 11, 7:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBox Butte40 min
May 11, 8:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSDawes62 min
May 11, 8:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBox Butte25 min

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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.