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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Cheyenne, WY

May 6, 1993Dawes County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at May 6, 1993, 5:29 PM MDT for Dawes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 6, 1993, 5:29 PM MDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 1993, 5:57 PM MDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area
Whole counties

County Dawes County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 1993-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 1993-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -2 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
230 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 6:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSGarden31 min
May 5, 6:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSSheridan63 min
May 5, 6:52 PM MDTTornado WarningCYSSheridan38 min
May 5, 7:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSGarden58 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.