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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Cheyenne, WY

June 4, 1994Dawes County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 1994, 6:13 PM MDT for Dawes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 1994, 6:13 PM MDT (00:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 1994, 7:15 PM MDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area
Whole counties

County Dawes County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 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 00:00Z on 1994-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 148 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1994-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
148 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2411 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
250 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBFF 050016
TORBFF
NEC045-161-050115-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SCOTTSBLUFF NE
613 PM MDT SAT JUN 4 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SCOTTSBLUFF HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE
 
   ...DAWES COUNTY...SHERIDAN COUNTY
 
AT 610 PM MDT ATORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND ABOUT 20 MILES
NORTHEAST OF ALLIANCE MOVING E AT 20 MPH..
 
 
TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT IF AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE GO TO A SMALL
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.  ABANDON
CARS AND MOBILE HOMES.
 
RENZ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 6:13 PM MDTTornado WarningCYSSheridan37 min
Jun 4, 6:32 PM MDTTornado WarningCYSBox Butte28 min
Jun 4, 7:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSDawes66 min
Jun 4, 7:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSSheridan63 min
Jun 4, 7:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSSheridan19 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.