Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1992, 1:04 PM MDT for Dawes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1992, 1:04 PM MDT (19:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1992, 1:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dawes County, NE
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 1:30 PM MDT | Hail 1.5 | Dawes, NE |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 756 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBFF 091904 SVRBFF NEC045-091930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 104 PM MDT THU JUL 9 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE
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 9, 12:44 PM MDT, 20 minutes before
NEZ001-005-011-092000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 1245 PM MDT THU JUL 9 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... AT 1243 PM MDT...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ENTERED THE WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE FROM WYOMING. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED 35 MILES WEST OF CHADRON NEBRASKA...JUST 8 MILES NORTH OF HARRISON IN SIOUX COUNTY. OTHER STORMS WERE LOCATED 30 MILES SOUTH AND 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF SCOTTSBLUFF. OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS WERE ALONG THE WYOMING/NEBRASKA STATELINE FROM INTERESTATE 80 IN THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE...NORTHWARD TO THE SOUTH DAKOTA/NEBRASKA STATELINE. ALL PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE WESTERN TWO-THIRDS OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 200 PM MDT. PFEIFFER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 1:28 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Dawes | 32 min |
| Jul 9, 2:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sheridan | 26 min |
| Jul 9, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sheridan | 25 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.