Alert archive / Wyoming / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1994, 2:43 PM MDT for Laramie County, Wyoming. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1994, 2:43 PM MDT (20:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1994, 3:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Laramie County, WY
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 3368 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KCYS 292044 RRA SVRCYS WYC021-292130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 243 PM MDT WED JUN 29 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING ...CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN LARAMIE COUNTY AT 240 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM CHEYENNE TO 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHEYENNE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THE WARNING ARE THE EAST SIDE OF CHEYENNE... CARPENTER...BURNS...EGBERT...AND PINE BLUFFS. AT 240 PM...WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH WERE REPORTED ON THE EAST SIDE OF CHEYENNE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. JBS/DJV &
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, Jun 29, 11:06 AM MDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
WYZALL-292200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 1106 AM MDT WED JUN 29 1994 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS OVER PARTS OF WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER MAINLY THE EAST PART OF WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON. MOST OF THOSE WILL PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS...BUT VERY LITTLE IN THE WAY OF RAINFALL. AT 1100 AM...SOME SHOWERS WERE NOTED OVER CENTRAL WYOMING. BY MID AFTERNOON...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED IN COVERAGE OVER EASTERN WYOMING. WIND GUSTS FROM THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY BRIEFLY GUST TO 50 MPH. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. PEOPLE IN WYOMING THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE SUDDEN AND STRONG WIND GUSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. WCJIN-WYALL WEILAND
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 11:07 AM MDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
WYZALL-292200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 1106 AM MDT WED JUN 29 1994 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS OVER PARTS OF WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER MAINLY THE EAST PART OF WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON. MOST OF THOSE WILL PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS...BUT VERY LITTLE IN THE WAY OF RAINFALL. AT 1100 AM...SOME SHOWERS WERE NOTED OVER CENTRAL WYOMING. BY MID AFTERNOON...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE SCATTERED IN COVERAGE OVER EASTERN WYOMING. WIND GUSTS FROM THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY BRIEFLY GUST TO 50 MPH. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY EVEN<ING HOURS. PEOPLE IN WYOMING THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE SUDDEN AND STRONG WIND GUSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. WCJIN-WYALL WEILAND
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 2:13 PM MDT, 30 minutes before
WYZ022>025-061>070-292100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 213 PM MDT WED JUN 29 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON... AT 205 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVLOPING IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING. THE STORMS WERE PRODUCING LITTLE RAINFALL BUT PLENTY OF LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN WEST CENTRAL LARAMIE COUNTY NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF HORSE CREEK...WHICH IS 27 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHEYENNE. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHWEST CARBON COUNTY NEAR BAGGS ...WHICH IS 56 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RAWLINS. THE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...BUT LITTLE RAINFALL. PEOPLE IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. IF A STORM APPROACHES...MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTER IF POSSIBLE. WCJIN-WYSE-WYSW DJV
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 2:13 PM MDT, 30 minutes before
WYZ022>025-061>070-292100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 213 PM MDT WED JUN 29 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON... AT 205 PM...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVLOPING IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING. THE STORMS WERE PRODUCING LITTLE RAINFALL BUT PLENTY OF LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 30 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN WEST CENTRAL LARAMIE COUNTY NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF HORSE CREEK...WHICH IS 27 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHEYENNE. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHWEST CARBON COUNTY NEAR BAGGS ...WHICH IS 56 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RAWLINS. THE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH...BUT LITTLE RAINFALL. PEOPLE IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS. IF A STORM APPROACHES...MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTER IF POSSIBLE. WCJIN-WYSE-WYSW DJV
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.