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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Cheyenne, WY

June 22, 1995Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1995, 2:07 PM MDT for Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1995, 2:07 PM MDT (20:07 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1995, 2:45 PM MDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area
Whole counties

County Scotts Bluff County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 224 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1995-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 123 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1995-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -48 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
123 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-351 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1321 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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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, 1 hour 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, 59 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 1:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSJohnson34 min
Jun 22, 4:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSPlatte29 min
Jun 22, 4:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSLaramie45 min
Jun 22, 5:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSLaramie40 min
Jun 21, 7:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSCheyenne, Morrill45 min
Jun 22, 2:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBox Butte, Dawes47 min
Jun 22, 2:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSDawes45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 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.