Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1994, 5:21 PM MDT for Morrill County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 1994, 5:21 PM MDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 1994, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morrill County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 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
- 2601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 6, 1:35 PM MDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before
WYZ056>058-060-068-062230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 135 PM MDT WED JUL 6 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN WYOMING... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF EXTREME EASTERN WYOMING. THIS WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM 130 PM TO 800 PM MDT AND INCLUDES GOSHEN ...NIOBRARA...WESTON AND CROOK COUNTIES. A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS IS IN PLACE ALONG THE EASTERN BORDER OF WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON. WITH A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM ALSO APPROACHING ...THIS REGION HAS CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE STORMS WHICH DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON IN THE WATCH AREA COULD EVEN PRODUCE TORNADOES. PEOPLE IN EXTREME EASTERN WYOMING SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IN THE EVENT A TORNADO OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED / TO LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER INFORMATION ON THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. WCJIN-WYSE-WYNE JMH
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 1:36 PM MDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
WYZ056>058-060-068-062230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 135 PM MDT WED JUL 6 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN WYOMING... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF EXTREME EASTERN WYOMING. THIS WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM 130 PM TO 800 PM MDT AND INCLUDES GOSHEN ...NIOBRARA...WESTON AND CROOK COUNTIES. A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS IS IN PLACE ALONG THE EASTERN BORDER OF WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON. WITH A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM ALSO APPROACHING ...THIS REGION HAS CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THE STORMS WHICH DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON IN THE WATCH AREA COULD EVEN PRODUCE TORNADOES. PEOPLE IN EXTREME EASTERN WYOMING SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IN THE EVENT A TORNADO OR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS OR NOAA WEA(THER RADIO FOR LATER INFORMATION ON THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. WCJIN-WYSE-WYNE JMH
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 1:39 PM MDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
NEZ001>004-019>022-054>056-062030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 138 PM MDT WED JUL 6 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE UNTIL 8 PM MDT. AT 138 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRENGTHENING THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING SOUTHWARD...NOW CENTERED ON THE BANNER/SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY LINE 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCOTTSBLUFF MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM HAS BEEN WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WIND AND DANGEROUS LIGHTING OVER PARTS OF SCOTTS BLUFF AND BANNER COUNTIES THROUGH 230 PM MDT. NO OTHER ACTIVITY WAS NOTED AROUND THE PANHANDLE AS OF 138 PM BUT FURTHER dDEVELOPMENT IS LIKELY AS THE AFTERNOON WEARS ON. HORNE
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 2:26 PM MDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
NEZ001>004-019>022-054>056-062130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE 226 PM MDT WED JUL 6 1994 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT... AT 224 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LINGERING 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCOTTSBLUFF. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WIND AND DANGEROUS LIGHTING OVER SCOTTS BLUFF AND NORTHERN BANNER COUNTIE4S THROUGH 330 PM MDT. A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALSO NOTED IN EAST CENTRAL WYOMING AND MAY APPROACH THE SIOUX COUNTY LINE WEST OF HARRISON AROUND 300 PM MDT. HORNE
Special weather statement, Jul 6, 4:50 PM MDT, 31 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 3:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 59 min |
| Jul 6, 3:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Garden | 65 min |
| Jul 6, 3:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sioux | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 4:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 4:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sheridan | 55 min |
| Jul 6, 4:37 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Morrill | 20 min |
| Jul 6, 5:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte, Dawes | 28 min |
| Jul 6, 5:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sheridan | 62 min |
| Jul 6, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Garden | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 3:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Goshen | 51 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.