Alert archive / Wyoming / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at Jun 29, 1992, 4:25 PM MDT for Goshen County, Wyoming. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1992, 4:25 PM MDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1992, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Goshen County, WY
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 632 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 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 KCYS 292227 RRA TORCYS WYC015-292300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 425 PM MDT MON JUN 29 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING ...NORTHWESTERN GOSHEN COUNTY THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE CITY OF FORT LARAMIE. AT 423 PM...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND 5 MILES WEST OF OLD FORT LARAMIE...OR 20 MILES EAST OF TORRINGTON. THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING THE TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. IN ADDITION...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FqOR MUCH OF EASTERN WYOMING UNTIL 900 PM. WEILAND
What 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 29, 1:59 PM MDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
WYZ001-002-003-004-005-006-007-018-019-050-051-292300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 155 PM MDT MON JUN 29 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING UNTIL 800 PM... THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MUCH OF NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING UNTIL 800 PM. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE CITIES OF SHERIDAN...WORLAND... CODY AND LOVELL AS WELL AS ALL OF YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS ONE THAT PRODUCES THREE QUARTER OF AN INCH OR LARGER DIAMETER HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 58 MILES AN HOUR OR MORE. SHORTLY BEFORE 100 PM...THE JACKSON AIRPORT RECORDED A WIND GUST TO 54 MILES AN HOUR FROM NEARBY THUNDERSTORMS. AT 130 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDESPREAD OVER THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE STATE. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. IN ADDITION...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING UNTIL 1000 PM THIS EVENING. PEOPLE IN NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...LARGE HAIL...STRONG WIND GUSTS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. WHEN A STORM APPROACHES MOVE INDOORS OR TO AN APPROPRIATE SHELTER. WEILAND
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 2:50 PM MDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
WYZ051>055-057-058>062-066>073-292300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 250 PM MDT MON JUN 29 1992 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF EASTERN WYOMING UNTIL
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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.