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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Cheyenne, WY

June 26, 1992Box Butte County, Dawes County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1992, 6:29 PM MDT for Box Butte County, Dawes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 1992, 6:29 PM MDT (00:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1992, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Box Butte County, NE, Dawes County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 289 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1992-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 914 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1992-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
914 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1575 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Jun 26, 2:44 PM MDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
NEZ001-005-011-262115-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE
242 PM MDT FRI JUN 26 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA PANHANDLE...

AT 238 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 33 MILES NORTHEAST
AND 30 MILES EAST OF SIDNEY NEBRASKA...OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF OSHKOSH IN
GARDEN COUNTY...AND 6 MILES WEST OF BIG SPRINGS ALONG I-80 IN DEUELL
COUNTY.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST BETWEEN 15 AND 20 MPH.

HEAVY RAIN...STRONG SHIFTING WINDS...AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS ACROSS GARDEN COUNTY AND DEUELL COUNTIES UNTIL 315 PM MDT.
PERSONS ALONG INTERSTATE 80 IN DEUELL COUNTY...AND IN THE TOWNS OF BIG
SPRINGS...OSHKOSH...AND LEWELLEGN SHOULD BE ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS.
PFEIFFER
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 3:25 PM MDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
WYZ066-067-262215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
325 PM MDT FRI JUN 26 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM FOR SOUTHERN ALBANY COUNTY...

AT 320 PM...A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PART
OF ALBANY COUNTY...GENERALLY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80.  THE STRONGEST
STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF LARAMIE.  THE STORMS WERE
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN ALBANY COUNTY...ESPECIALLY IN THE VICINITY OF LARAMIE
...SHOULD BE ALERT TO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON.
HAIL...STRONG WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING COULD OCCUR
WITH THE STORMS.  IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...GO TO A SAFE PLACE
SUCH AS A STURDY BUILDING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

JAD
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 3:32 PM MDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before
WYZ071-072-073-262230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
330 PM MDT FRI JUN 26 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM FOR LARAMIE COUNTY...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED OVER IN LARAMIE COUNTY TO THE WEST AND
NORTHWEST OF CHEYENNE.  RADAR INDICATED HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN WERE LIKELY
WITH THESE STORMS.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST OR NORTHEAST AT
10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINED IN EFFECT FOR LARAMIE COUNTY UNTIL 8 PM THIS
EVENING.  PEOPLE IN LARAMIE COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS
UNTIL EARLY THIS EVENING AND TAKE COVER IF A STORM APPROACHES.

SCOTT
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 4:33 PM MDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
WYZ066-067-069>073-262332-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
432 PM MDT FRI JUN 26 1992

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON IN
SOUTHEAST WYOMING...

AT 425 PM...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM EAST CENTRAL GOSHEN
COUNTY THROUGH SOUTHWEST LARAMIE COUNTY.  THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE
LOCATED IN A BAND THAT EXTENDED FROM 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TORRINGTON
TO 5 MILES WEST OF CHEYENNE.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND
15 MILES AN HOUR.

HAIL...STRONG WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE
WITH THESE STORMS.  PEOPLE IN WESTERN LARAMIE...SOUTHERN PLATTE AND
SOUTHERN GOSHEN COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT TO THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS.
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE SUCH AS A
STURDY BUILDING.
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IN ADDITION...PEOPLE IN LARAMIE COUNTY AND SOUTHERN ALBANY COUNTY ARE
REMINDED THAT A TORNANDO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT THIS
E%VENING.

DJV
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 5:26 PM MDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
WYZ070-073-270123-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
523 PM MDT FRI JUN 26 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM FOR GOSHEN AND EASTERN
LARAMIE COUNTY...

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED SCATTERED OVER SOUTHEAST WYOMING
FRIDAY EVENING.  A FEW OF THESE STORM COULD CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY
WINDS AND HAIL THROUGH THE EVENING.  THE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE
TO THE EAST OR NORTHEAST 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR.

AGAIN...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR GOSHEN AND EASTERN LARAMIE
COUNTY INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF TORRINGTON AND PINE BLUFFS UNTIL 11 PM
THIS EVENING.  PEOPLE IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR
THUNDERSTORMS AND TAKE COVER IF A STORM APPROACHES.

SGS
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 5:33 PM MDT, 56 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 6:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSSheridan29 min
Jun 26, 6:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSSioux25 min
Jun 26, 7:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBox Butte39 min
Jun 26, 7:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSMorrill31 min
Jun 26, 7:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBox Butte29 min
Jun 26, 8:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSCheyenne39 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.