Alert archive / Wyoming / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1994, 3:25 PM MDT for Goshen County, Wyoming. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 1994, 3:25 PM MDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1994, 4:03 PM MDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Goshen County, WY
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 472 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 992 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 25, 1:16 PM MDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before
NEZ001>004-019>022-054>056-252030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 116 PM MDT MON JUL 25 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST PANHANDLE... AT 115 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF HARRISON OR ABOUT 55 MILES WEST OF CHADRON NEBRASKA NEAR THE WYOMING STATE LINE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND MAY PASS NEAR HARRISON NEBRASKA AROUND 145 PM MDT. THIS STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF SIOUX COUNTY THROUGH 230 PM MDT. HORNE
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 1:18 PM MDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
NEZ001>004-019>022-054>056-252030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 116 PM MDT MON JUL 25 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE NORTHWEST PANHANDLE... AT 115 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF HARRISON OR ABOUT 55 MILES WEST OF CHADRON NEBRASKA NEAR THE WYOMING STATE LINE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND MAY PASS NEAR HARRISON NEBRASKA AROUND 145 PM MDT. THIS STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF SIOUX COUNTY THROUGH 230 PM MDT. HORNE
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 2:07 PM MDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
NEZ001>004-019>022-054>056-252115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 207 PM MDT MON JUL 25 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE WESTERN PANHANDLE... AT 205 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF SIOUX COUNTY ABOUT 50 MILES WEST OF CHADRON NEBRASKA. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD ALSO DEVELOPED 5 MILES WEST OF KIMBALL OR ABOUT 45 MILES SOUTH OF SCOTTSBLUFF. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS ACROSS SIOUX AND SOUTHERN KIMBALL COUNTIES THROUGH 315 PM MDT. HORNE
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 2:08 PM MDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
NEZ001>004-019>022-054>056-252115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 207 PM MDT MON JUL 25 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE WESTERN PANHANDLE... AT 205 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF SIOUX COUNTY ABOUT 50 MILES WEST OF CHADRON NEBRASKA. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD ALSO DEVELOPED 5 MILES WEST OF KIMBALL OR ABOUT 45 MILES SOUTH OF SCOTTSBLUFF. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS ACROSS SIOUX AND SOUTHERN KIMBALL COUNTIES THROUGH 315 PM MDT. HORNE
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 2:42 PM MDT, 43 minutes before
NEZ001>004-019>022-054>056-252130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 242 PM MDT MON JUL 25 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE PANHANDLE UNTIL 9 PM MDT... AT 241 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY ACROSS THE PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES NORTH OF SCOTTSBLUFF AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN SIOUX COUNTY AND WILL LIKELY HIT THE SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY LINE AROUND 330 PM MDT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. HORNE
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 2:43 PM MDT, 42 minutes before
NEZ001>004-019>022-054>056-252130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 242 PM MDT MON JUL 25 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR THE PANHANDLE UNTIL 9 PM MDT... AT 241 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY ACROSS THE PANHANDLE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 25 MILES NORTH OF SCOTTSBLUFF AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN SIOUX COUNTY AND WILL LIKELY HIT THE SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY LINE AROUND 330 PM MDT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS SHOULD WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEZN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. HORNE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 3:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Scotts Bluff | 33 min |
| Jul 25, 4:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Kimball | 27 min |
| Jul 25, 2:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Laramie | 47 min |
| Jul 25, 3:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Laramie | 45 min |
| Jul 25, 3:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Platte | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wyoming, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.