Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1991, 7:01 PM MDT for Banner County, Nebraska. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 1991, 7:01 PM MDT (01:01 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1991, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Banner County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 968 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1264 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KBFF 290101
TORBFF
NEC007-290130-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE
701 PM MDT TUE MAY 28 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA
EASTERN BANNER
AT 659 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 18 MILES SOUTH OF
SCOTTSBLUFF NEBRASKA...JUST EAST OF HARRISBURG NEAR HIGHWAY 71.
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
A SPOTTER 4 MILES NORTH OF HARRISBURG CONFIRMED A FUNNEL CLOUD
1 MILE SOUTH OF HIS HOME AT 647 PM MDT.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...FIND SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...TAKE SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR
LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH
THIS STORM...IN ADDITION TO THE THREAT OF TORNADOES.
AFTER THE THREAT OF THE TORNADO PASSES...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO
ESCAPE THE POSSIBILITY OF FLASH FLOODING.
TAKE COVER NOW.
PFEIFFERWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 28, 2:45 PM MDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, May 28, 3:18 PM MDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, May 28, 3:24 PM MDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, May 28, 4:13 PM MDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
WYZ012-015-016-017-282330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 410 PM MDT TUE MAY 28 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER SOUTHEAST WYOMING... AT 400 PM THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN WYOMING AS WELL AS THE EAST THIRD OF THE STATE. IN THE SOUTHEAST...AN INTENSE STORM AT THAT TIME WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF CHUGWATER...OR 40 MILES SOUTH OF WHEATLAND. PEA SIZED HAIL HAD BEEN REPORTED AT BOTH CHUGWATER AND THE EAST SIDE OF CHEYENNE BETWEEN 300 PM AND 400 PM. ALL OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS...ESPECIALLY IN EASTERN WYOMING WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE EVEVNING HOURS. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE INTENSE AND PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 45 MILES AN HOUR...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. THE INTENSE STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH HAWK SPRINGS BY 430 PM. PEOPLE IN EXTREME SOUTHERN WYOMING AS WELL AS THE EAST THIRD OF THE STATE SHOULD BE PREPAJRED FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS...SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS MAY RISE. IF A STORM APPROACHES...MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTER RIGHT AWAY. WEILAND
Special weather statement, May 28, 4:47 PM MDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
WYZ012-017-290030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 445 PM MDT TUE MAY 28 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP NEAR CHEYENNE IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING... AT 440 PM THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP 8 MILES EAST OF CHEYENNE IN THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF LARAMIE COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTH OF CHEYENNE ABOUT THE SAME TIME AND MOVING NORTH. AND NORTHEAST. THE SEVERE STORM TO THE SOUTH OF CHEYENE WyILL BE INTO LARAMIE COUNTY BEFORE 5 PM AND PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN AND EASTERN LARAMIE COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. SGS
Special weather statement, May 28, 5:18 PM MDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
NEZ001-005-011-290000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 515 PM MDT TUE MAY 28 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH SOUTHERN PANHANDLE UNTIL 9 PM MDT... AT 512 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS JUST ACROSS THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE BORDER IN EASTERN WYOMING. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM 25 MILES WEST OF SCOTTSBLUFF TO 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCOTTSBLUFF NEBRASKA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN SIOUX...SCOTTS BLUFF...AND NORTHERN BANNER COUNTIES OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WIND AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE INTO SOUTHERN SIOUX... SCOHTTS BLUFF...AND NORTHERN BANNER COUNTIES UNTIL 600 PM MDT. EMANUEL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 6:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Banner | 38 min |
| May 28, 6:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Banner | 28 min |
| May 28, 7:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 28 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.