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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 1992, 7:13 PM MDT for Sheridan County, Nebraska. It was in force for 17 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1992, 7:13 PM MDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1992, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sheridan County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 222 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2301 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KBFF 070113
TORBFF
NEC161-070130-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE
713 PM MDT MON JUL 6 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA
SOUTHEAST SHERIDAN
AT 712 PM MDT A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY RADAR 34 MILES
EAST OF ALLIANCE...OR NEAR THE TOWN OF BINGHAM.
THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN
SHERIDAN COUNTY.
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH.
TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAYh FROM WINDOWS. ABANDON
CARS AND MOBILE HOMES.
TAKE COVER NOW.
KYLEWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 6, 2:49 PM MDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
NEZ001-005-011-062140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 249 PM MDT MON JUL 6 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED OVER THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE... AT 247 PM MDT...RADAR INDICTED A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF SIDNEY...AND 12 MILES EAST OF SIDNEY...OVER EASTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. BR'IEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTING WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS OVER DEUEL...EASTERN CHEYENNE AND SOUTHERN GARDEN COUNTIES OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 340 PM MDT. EMANUEL
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 4:28 PM MDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before
NEZ001-005-011-070000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 428 PM MDT MON JUL 6 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS OVER GARDEN COUNTY... AT 425 PM MDT...RADAR INDICTED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER GARDEN COUNTY...JUST NORTH OF OSHKOSH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 36 MILES NORTHEAST OF SIDNEY...OR A FEW MILES NORTH OF OSHKOSH. OTHER SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN EASTERN WYOMING AND WILL MOVE INTO SIOUX COUNTY BY 5 PM. ~ THE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS OVER GARDEN AND SIOUX COUNTIES UNTIL AROUND 6 PM MDT. KYLE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 6:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 6:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sheridan | 26 min |
| Jul 6, 7:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 26 min |
| Jul 6, 8:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 30 min |
| Jul 6, 8:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Garden, Morrill | 29 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.