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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Cheyenne, WY

July 19, 1993Banner County, Kimball County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1993, 5:51 PM MDT for Banner County, Kimball County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 19, 1993, 5:51 PM MDT (23:51 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 1993, 6:22 PM MDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Banner County, NE, Kimball County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 172 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 1993-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 47 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1993-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
47 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-327 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1404 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-51 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 19, 4:44 PM MDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 19, 5:15 PM MDT, 36 minutes before
NEZ001-005-011-200015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE
515 PM MDT MON JUL 19 1993

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM FOR THE WESTERN PANHANDLE...

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM FOR SIOUX...SCOTTS BLUFF...
BANNER...KIMBALL...MORRILL AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES OF THE NEBRASKA
PANHANDLE.

AT 513 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A FEW THUNDERSTORMS HAD FORMED OVER THE
SOUTHWEST PART OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE.  THE STORMS HAD FORMED ALONG
A LINE FROM 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SCOTTSBLUFF TO 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
SCOTTSBLUFF.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND...SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING MAY OCCUR
WITH THESE STORMS OVER KIMBALL...BANNER...WESTERN MORRILL AND WESTERN
CHEYENNE COUNTIES OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 615 PM MDT.
EMANUEL
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 5:15 PM MDT, 36 minutes before
NEZ001-005-011-200015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE
515 PM MDT MON JUL 19 1993

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM FOR THE WESTERN PANHANDLE...

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM FOR SIOUX...SCOTTS BLUFF...
BANNER...KIMBALL...MORRILL AND CHEYENNE COUNTIES OF THE NEBRASKA
PANHANDLE.

AT 513 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A FEW THUNDERSTORMS HAD FORMED OVER THE
SOUTHWEST PART OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE.  THE STORMS HAD FORMED ALONG
A LINE FROM 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SCOTTSBLUFF TO 45 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
SCOTTSBLUFF.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND...SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING MAY OCCUR
WITH THESE STORMS OVER KIMBALL...BANNER...WESTERN MORRILL AND WESTERN
CHEYENNE COUNTIES OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 615 PM MDT.
EMANUEL
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 5:21 PM MDT, 30 minutes before
WYZ070-072-073-200030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
521 PM MDT MON JUL 19 1993

AT 505 PM MDT...A WEATHER SERVICE OBSERVER IN PINE BLUFFS REPORTED PEA
TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL. PINE BLUFFS IS ALONG INTERSTATE 80 NEAR THE
NEBRASKA BORDER ABOUT 38 MILES EAST OF CHEYENNE.

AS EXPECTED...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED RAPIDLY IN THAT AREA AROUND
5 PM AND WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. MORE THUNDERSTORMS
ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP ALONG THE WYOMING/NEBRASKA BORDER OVER THE NEXT
HOUR OR SO. BESIDES PINE BLUFFS...OTHER COMMUNITIES LIKE LA
GRANGE...HAWK SPRINGS...AND TORRINGTON COULD SEE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL WYOMING
UNTIL 8 PM. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...AND EVEN PRODUCE
TORNADOES. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...USE GOOD SENSE AND MOVE
INDOORS. STAY THERE UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED.

WCJIN-WYSE
CAS

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Special weather statement, Jul 19, 5:21 PM MDT, 30 minutes before
WYZ070-072-073-200030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
521 PM MDT MON JUL 19 1993

AT 505 PM MDT...A WEATHER SERVICE OBSERVER IN PINE BLUFFS REPORTED PEA
TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL. PINE BLUFFS IS ALONG INTERSTATE 80 NEAR THE
NEBRASKA BORDER ABOUT 38 MILES EAST OF CHEYENNE.

AS EXPECTED...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED RAPIDLY IN THAT AREA AROUND
5 PM AND WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. MORE THUNDERSTORMS
ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP ALONG THE WYOMING/NEBRASKA BORDER OVER THE NEXT
HOUR OR SO. BESIDES PINE BLUFFS...OTHER COMMUNITIES LIKE LA
GRANGE...HAWK SPRINGS...AND TORRINGTON COULD SEE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL WYOMING
UNTIL 8 PM. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...AND EVEN PRODUCE
TORNADOES. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...USE GOOD SENSE AND MOVE
INDOORS. STAY THERE UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED.

WCJIN-WYSE
CAS

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 18, 6:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSGarden29 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.