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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Cheyenne, WY

July 21, 1992Sioux County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1992, 3:10 PM MDT for Sioux County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 21, 1992, 3:10 PM MDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 1992, 3:45 PM MDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area
Whole counties

County Sioux County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 190 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 1992-07-21Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 1992-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 135 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
576 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
184 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, Jul 21, 10:18 AM MDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
WYZ052>055-058-060>062-068>073-211830-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
1020 AM MDT TUE JUL 21 1992

...THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO BECOME NASTY IN THE EASTERN PLAINS OF
WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON...

SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE OVER THE EAST PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON
AS A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE CONTINUES EAST THROUGH THE STATE.
THIS UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE HAS ALREADY FIRED UP THUNDERSTORMS OVER
THE WESTERN MOUNTAINS THIS MORNING WITH STORMS SPREADING INTO THE
CENTRAL BASINS BY 10 AM.

THE AREA OF GREATEST RISK WILL BE EAST OF THE LARAMIE MOUNTAINS TO THE
NEBRASKA BORDER...AND NORTHEAST TOWARDS THE SOUTH END OF THE BLACK
BLACK HILLS.  THE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL DIMINISH QUICKLY FARTHER
NORTH AND WEST.
<
PEOPLE IN WYOMING/S EASTERN PLAINS SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE LATEST
WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS THIS AFTERNOON.  BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY
IF THE NEED ARISES.|
PAL
Special weather statement, Jul 21, 1:30 PM MDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
WYZ053-058>062-066>073-212030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
130 PM MDT TUE JUL 21 1992

...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST
WYOMING AND IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM THIS EVENING...

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEGUN DEVELOPING IN EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST
WYOMING EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...AND HAVE ALREADY PRODUCED MARBLE SIZED
HAIL AT DOUGLAS.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO STRENGTHEN
THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS.  THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING.  THESE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OFTEN DO PRODUCE TORNADOES.

THERFORE...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR EAST CENTRAL AND
SOUTHEAST WYOMING.  THIS WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM THIS EVENING.

THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE TORNADO WATCH...WESTON...
CONVERSE...NIOBRARA...ALBANY...PLATTE...GOSHEN...LARAMIE AND SOUTHERN
CAMPBELL.

THIS ALSO INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING TOWNS AND CITIES...NEWCASTLE...DOUGLAS
...LUSK...LARAMIE...WHEATLAND...TORRINGTON...CHEYENNE...AND WRIGHT.

PEOPLE IN EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING SHOULD KEEP ABREAST OF THE
LATEST WEATHER DEVELOPMENTS.  STAY TUNED TO NOAAv WEATHER RADIO OR THE
LOCAL MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS.  IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...
BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY QUICKLY.

DJV

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 21, 3:27 PM MDTTornado WarningCYSSioux33 min
Jul 21, 3:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSScotts Bluff, Sioux35 min
Jul 21, 4:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBox Butte, Scotts Bluff26 min
Jul 21, 4:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBox Butte, Morrill39 min
Jul 21, 5:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSGarden39 min
Jul 21, 5:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSCheyenne32 min
Jul 21, 1:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSPlatte27 min
Jul 21, 2:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSGoshen, Platte57 min
Jul 21, 3:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSGoshen63 min

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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.