Alert archive / Wyoming / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1992, 1:53 PM MDT for Laramie County, Wyoming. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 1992, 1:53 PM MDT (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 1992, 2:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Laramie County, WY
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 341 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1496 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 26, 11:45 AM MDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
NEZ001-005-011-261900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 1145 AM MDT SUN JUL 26 1992 ...THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPED OVER THE NORTHERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... AT 1142 PM MDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED OVER DAWES COUNTY IN THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE. THE STORM WAS 8 MILES WEST OF CHADRON...OR 8 MILES EAST OF CRAWFORD. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH AND SHOULD BE IN THE CHADRON VICINITY BY 1215 PM MDT. PEOPLE IN THE CHADRON AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR STRONG GUSTY WIND...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN AS THE STORM APPROACHES. KYLE
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 12:41 PM MDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
WYZ066-067-069-071-072-261930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 1240 PM MDT SUN JUL 26 1992 THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED RAPIDLY ALONG AND NEAR THE LARAMIE MOUNTAIN RANGE OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING LATE THIS MORNING. AT 1235 PM MDT...THE STRONGEST STORM WAS OVER THE NORTH PART OF CHEYENNE. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL AS IT MOVED EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ON A SCATTERED BASIS IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON FOR THUNDERSTORMS. B SHOULD A STORM APPROACH YOUR AREA ...SEEK A SAFE PLACE...INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. HATTEN
Special weather statement, Jul 26, 12:58 PM MDT, 55 minutes before
NEZ001-005-011-262000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 1257 PM MDT SUN JUL 26 1992 ...THUNDERSTORM OVER THE NORTHERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... AT 1254 PM MDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER DAWES COUNTY IN THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE. THE STRONGER STORMS WERE 6 MILES SOUTH AND 19 MILES SOUTH OF CHADRON...OR 18 MILES EAST OF CRAWFORD AND 13 MILES NORTH OF HEMINGFORD. ANOTHER STORM WAS 14 MILES EAST OF CHADRON...IN WESTERN SHERIDAN COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WIND...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WITH THESE STORMS OVER DAWES AND NORTHERN SHERIDAN COUNTIES FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO. KYLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 2:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Dawes | 28 min |
| Jul 26, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sheridan | 30 min |
| Jul 26, 2:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sheridan | 31 min |
| Jul 26, 3:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sheridan | 33 min |
| Jul 26, 3:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Cheyenne | 38 min |
| Jul 26, 2:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Laramie | 27 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wyoming, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.