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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Cheyenne, WY

June 7, 1992Cheyenne County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1992, 4:33 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Nebraska. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1992, 4:33 PM MDT (22:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1992, 5:00 PM MDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area
Whole counties

County Cheyenne County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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 12:00Z on 1992-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1992-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1796 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 7, 2:13 PM MDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
WYZ066-071>073-072200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
215 PM MDT SUN JUN 7 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING...

A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND SOME THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER THE
SOUTHERN LARAMIE RANGE.  AT 2PM THE STRONGEST STORM WAS ABOUT 12 MILES
SOUTH OF CHEYENNE...NEAR THE COLORADO BORDER.  WEAKER ONES WERE ABOUT
FIVE MILES WEST OF CHEYENNE.  THEY WERE ALL MOVING EAST AROUND 20
MILES AN HOUR.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OVER THE
SOUTHEAST CORNER OF WYOMING FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO.  DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED.  IF OUTDOORS AND THREATENING WEATHER
APPROACHES...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE.

CGB
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 3:17 PM MDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
NEZ001-005-011-072315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE
315 PM MDT SUN JUN 7 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE...

AT 313 PM MDT...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE SOUTHERN
HALF OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE.  THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 20 MILES
NORTHEAST OF KIMBALL AND 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF SIDNEY.  ANOTHER STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WERE ON THE KIMBALL AND CHEYENNE COUNTY LINE BETWEEN
KIMBALL AND SIDNEY AS WELL AS IN WESTERN KIMBALL COUNTY.  THESE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THE STORMS AS THEY ACROSS KIMBALL AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES AND INTO
MORRILL COUNTY UNTIL 515 PM MDT.
SALMONS
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 3:51 PM MDT, 42 minutes before
NEZ001-005-011-072330-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE
350 PM MDT SUN JUN 7 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE...

AT 344 PM MDT...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE SOUTHERN
HALF OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE.  THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 5 MILES WEST OF
OSHKOSH OR 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF SIDNEY.  ALL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING
TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH.

LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS KIMBALL...CHEYENNE...DEUEL...MORRILL
AND GARDEN COUNTIES UNTIL 530 PM MDT.
SALMONS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 5:30 PM MDTTornado WarningCYSScotts Bluff30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 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.