Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 1993, 2:21 PM MDT for Box Butte County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 1993, 2:21 PM MDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1993, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Box Butte County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 996 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 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 232021
TORBFF
NEC013-232100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE
221 PM MDT WED JUN 23 1993
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA
SOUTHERN BOX BUTTE...THE CITY OF ALLIANCE
AT 219 PM MDT A TORNADO WAS REPORTED TO BE 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
ALLIANCE.
MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
GIVE REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER OR DAMAGE TO A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUSLY ISSUED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN BOX BUTTE COUNTY.
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, Jun 23, 1:22 PM MDT, 59 minutes before
WYZ068-069-070-071-072-232030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 121 PM MDT WED JUN 23 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 482 IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF WYOMING UNTIL 800 PM MDT... AT 115 PM MDT...SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH PLATTE...GOSHEN...AND LARAMIE COUNTIES. NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS REPORTED. HOWEVER...RADAR INDICATED THAT THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HALF INCH HAIL. WIND GUSTS TO 45 MILES AN HOUR AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE ALSO LIKELY. THE STRONGEST GROUP OF STORMS WAS LOCATED ALONG INTERSTATE 25 BETWEEN 25 AND 40 MILES NORTH OF CHEYENNE. THEY WILL BE APPROACHING THE TOWN OF CHUGWATER...IN SOUTHERN PLATTE COUNTY BY 145 PM MDT. SEEK INDOOR SHELTER WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE IN THE AREA. LIGHTNING IS A MAJOR THREAT. WCJIN-WYSE CAS
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 1:35 PM MDT, 46 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 1:38 PM MDT, 43 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 1:39 PM MDT, 42 minutes before
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
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 2:15 PM MDT, 6 minutes before
WYZ068-069-070-071-072-232230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 215 PM MDT WED JUN 23 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER SOUTHEAST WYOMING... AT 205 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE EAST PART OF GOSHEN COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 10 MILES SOUTH OF TORRINGTON. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO DEVELOPING INTO CENTRAL LARAMIE COUNTY... JUST NORTH OF CHEYENNE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. BETWEEN 200 PM AND 205 PM...THE HAWK SPRINGS AREA...ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF TORRINGTON...OBSERVED HEAVY RAIN AND PEA SIZED HAIL. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. < IN ADDITION...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 800 PM. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...MOVE AWAY FROM METAL OBJECTS...LAKES AND RIVERS AND TALL OBJECTS. A SAFE PLACE IS INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING. WCJIN-WYSE WEILAND
Special weather statement, Jun 23, 2:19 PM MDT, 2 minutes before
WYZ068-069-070-071-072-232230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 215 PM MDT WED JUN 23 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER SOUTHEAST WYOMING... AT 205 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE EAST PART OF GOSHEN COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 10 MILES SOUTH OF TORRINGTON. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO DEVELOPING INTO CENTRAL LARAMIE COUNTY... JUST NORTH OF CHEYENNE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. BETWEEN 200 PM AND 205 PM...THE HAWK SPRINGS AREA...ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF TORRINGTON...OBSERVED HEAVY RAIN AND PEA SIZED HAIL. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. < IN ADDITION...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 800 PM. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...MOVE AWAY FROM METAL OBJECTS...LAKES AND RIVERS AND TALL OBJECTS. A SAFE PLACE IS INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING. WCJIN-WYSE WEILAND
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 1:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Box Butte | 25 min |
| Jun 23, 2:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte | 37 min |
| Jun 23, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 30 min |
| Jun 23, 3:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 26 min |
| Jun 23, 3:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Garden | 15 min |
| Jun 23, 3:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Kimball | 37 min |
| Jun 23, 4:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Cheyenne | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Garden | 50 min |
| Jun 23, 4:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Cheyenne | 56 min |
Nearby
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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.