Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 1992, 1:02 PM MDT for Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 1992, 1:02 PM MDT (19:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1992, 1:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Scotts Bluff County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 895 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 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 251902
TORBFF
NEC157-251930-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE
102 PM MDT THU JUN 25 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA
SCOTTS BLUFF
AT 100 PM MDT...A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS SEEN ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF
SCOTTSBLUFF MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
DO NOT TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO IN A CAR. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED
AROUND BY TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...
LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A REINFORCED BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS
NEARBY...TAKE SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AWAY FRDOM THE VEHICLE.
PEEKWhat 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, Jun 25, 10:31 AM MDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
WYZALL-252000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 1025 AM MDT THU JUN 25 1992 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY OVER MUCH OF WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AGAIN LIKELY OVER MOST LOCATIONS OF WYOMING THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN DURING THAT TIME...ESPECIALLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS. AT 1000 AM...SHOWERS CONTINUED FROM SOUTHEAST TO CENTRAL WYOMING. MOST OF THIS RAINFALL WAS LIGHT. THE AREA OF SHOWERS WILL EXPAND AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE STATE WILL SEE LESS NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE OVER MUCH OF WYOMING AT LEAST THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT. THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HEAVY RAINFALL. THE HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND URBAN AREAS. IN ADDITION...HAIL WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS. IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF WYOMING THE STORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO ABOVE 40 MILES AN HOUR THROUGH THE EVENING. PEOPLE OUTDOORS OR TRAVELING IN WYOMING THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF HEAVY RAIN. THE HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE FLOODING IN A VERY SHORT TIME IN THE MOUNTAINS. WHEN THUNDERSORMS DEVELOP BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND RIGHT AWAY. BE SURE NOT TO CROSS WATER RUNNING OVER ROADS OR BRIDGES. WEILAND
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 12:18 PM MDT, 44 minutes before
WYZ025-029-030-032-031-033-034-252015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 1215 PM MDT THU JUN 25 1992 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING IN SOUTHWEST WYOMING THIS NOONTIME... WEATHER RADAR AND SATELLITE PHOTOS CONTINUE TO INDICATE BUILDING THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST WYOMING NEAR THE NOON HOUR. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND LIGHTNING THIS AFTERNOON. ONE OF THE GREATEST THREATS FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS APPEARS TO BE GUSTY WINDS AND LIGHTNING. ALL PERSONS SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PERSONS ON LAKES SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY AWARE OF CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS DURING THE NEXT 6 TO 8 HOURS. SGS
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 1992Every tornado warning in 1992Tornadoes 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.