Alert archive / Wyoming / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1995, 1:41 PM MDT for Johnson County, Wyoming. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1995, 1:41 PM MDT (19:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1995, 2:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Johnson County, WY
The nearest sounding before it
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 1820 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSHR 221941 RRA SVRSHR WYC019-222015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHERIDAN WY 141 PM MDT THU JUN 22 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHERIDAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING ...JOHNSON COUNTY THIS INCLUDES THE TOWNS OF KAYCEE...BARNUM...AND MAYOWORTH. AT 137 PM MDT...THE KAYCEE POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED HEAVY RAIN AND GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL 10 MILES NORTH OF KAYCEE...IN CENTRAL JOHNSON COUNTY. BILLINGS RADAR INDICATED THE ASSOCIATED THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT APPROXIMATELY 10 TO 15 MPH. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. WCJIN-WYN2E LOCKHART & NNNN
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 22, 1:07 PM MDT, 34 minutes before
WYZ060-068-070-NEZ001>003-019-021-222030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 107 PM MDT THU JUN 22 1995 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER PARTS OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... AT 100 PM...CHEYENNE DOPPER RADAR SHOWED 2 LINES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE WYOMING/NEBRASKA BORDER. ONE LINE EXTENDED FROM NEAR LUSK TO TORRINGTON TO 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHEYENNE. THE SECOND LINE EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES WEST OF CHADRON TO 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCOTTS BLUFF. THESE LINES WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED SOUTH OF TORRINGTON AND SOUTHWEST OF SCOTTS BLUFF. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE AS THE STRONGER STORMS MOVE THROUGH. WCJIN-WYSE- RRS
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 1:08 PM MDT, 33 minutes before
WYZ060-068-070-NEZ001>003-019-021-222030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 107 PM MDT THU JUN 22 1995 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER PARTS OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... AT 100 PM...CHEYENNE DOPPER RADAR SHOWED 2 LINES OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE WYOMING/NEBRASKA BORDER. ONE LINE EXTENDED FROM NEAR LUSK TO TORRINGTON TO 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHEYENNE. THE SECOND LINE EXTENDED FROM 20 MILES WEST OF CHADRON TO 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCOTTS BLUFF. THESE LINES WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED SOUTH OF TORRINGTON AND SOUTHWEST OF SCOTTS BLUFF. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE AS THE STRONGER STORMS MOVE THROUGH. WCJIN-WYSE- RRS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 4:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Platte | 29 min |
| Jun 22, 4:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Laramie | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 5:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Laramie | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wyoming, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.