Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1992, 4:01 PM MDT for Morrill County, Nebraska. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 1992, 4:01 PM MDT (22:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1992, 4:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morrill County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2777 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 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 29, 1:19 PM MDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
NEZ001-005-011-292030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 118 PM MDT WED JUL 29 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHWEST NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... AT 116 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER MOST OF KIMBALL COUNTY...IN THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE PANHANDLE. KIMBALL POLICE REPORTED PEA-SIZED HAIL AND LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN IN THE CITY OF KIMBALL. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 20 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND...SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER KIMBALL AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES UNTIL 230 PM MDT. PFEIFFER
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 2:04 PM MDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
WYZ058-062-070-073-302100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 203PM MDT WED JUL 29 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EXTREME EASTERN WYOMING UNTIL 8PM MDT... A TORNADO WATCH WAS ISSUED FROM 2PM MDT UNTIL 8PM MDT FOR MUCH OF EXTREME EASTERN WYOMING. THE WATCH INCLUDED THE COUNTIES OF WESTON ...NIOBRARA...GOSHEN AND EASTERN LARAMIE COUNTIES OF WYOMING. CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AREA WERE LUSK...PINE BLUFFS...NEW CASTLE AND TORRINGTON. CHEYENNE WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING HAIL...STRONG WINDS... INTENSE LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES. PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS. ALSO BE SURE TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LOCAL AUTHORITIES OR DIRECTLY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. zPARKER
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 2:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
WYZ070-292115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 215 PM MDT WED JUL 29 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN WEST CENTRAL GOSHEN COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON... AT 210 PM...RADAR INDICATED THAT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN WEST CENTRAL GOSHEN COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF TORRINGTON...WHICH IS 7 MILES EAST OF GUERNSEY. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES WEST OF TORRINGTON. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. REMEMBER THAT THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OFTEN TIMES DO PRODUCE TORNADOES. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING IF POSSIBLE. PEOPLE IN GOSHEN COUNTY ARE ALSO REMINDED THAT A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT THIS EVENING. VIRGILLITO
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 2:27 PM MDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
NEZ001-005-011-292130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 228 PM MDT WED JUL 29 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... ...TORNADO WATCH INCLUDES PANHANDLE UNTIL 800 PM MDT... AT 226 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER KIMBALL...BANNER...AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES IN THE SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 30 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND...SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER KIMBALL...BANNER... AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES UNTIL 330 PM MDT. A TORNADO WATCH INCLUDES THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 800 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 6:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Garden | 12 min |
| Jul 29, 2:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 35 min |
| Jul 29, 3:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 29 min |
| Jul 29, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sheridan | 32 min |
| Jul 29, 4:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Morrill | 14 min |
| Jul 29, 4:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Garden | 24 min |
| Jul 29, 4:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sheridan | 29 min |
| Jul 29, 4:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Garden | 28 min |
| Jul 29, 5:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sioux | 26 min |
| Jul 29, 5:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sheridan | 30 min |
| Jul 29, 5:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte | 29 min |
| Jul 28, 9:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Carbon | 55 min |
| Jul 29, 5:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Platte | 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.