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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Cheyenne, WY

July 2, 1995Dawes County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1995, 1:27 PM MDT for Dawes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 2, 1995, 1:27 PM MDT (19:27 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 1995, 2:15 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area
Whole counties

County Dawes County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 45 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 101 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
45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-177 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2023 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KCYS 021930 RRA
SVRCYS
NEC045-022015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
127 PM MDT SUN JUL 2 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE
 
   ...WESTERN AND SOUTHERN DAWES COUNTY
 
THIS INCLUDES THE TOWN OF CRAWFORD.
 
RADAR IN CHEYENNE INDICATED THAT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED
JUST EAST OF CRAWFORD NEBRASKA AT 125 PM. THIS STORM WAS MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
 
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY.  GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
 
DAW

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 2, 12:29 PM MDT, 58 minutes before
WYZ065-066-067-068-069-070-NEZ001-002-003-019-020-021-054-055-021930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
1229 PM MDT SUN JUL 2 1995

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST WYOMING
AND THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE...

AT 1220 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN CHEYENNE INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS
WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN LARAMIE AND ALBANY COUNTIES OF WYOMING
AND IN THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF KIMBALL...BANNER...AND SIOUX
COUNTIES OF NEBRASKA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 15
MPH.

THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN OVER THE NEXT HOUR.
RESIDENTS OF SOUTHEASTERN WYOMING AND THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE
SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...WITH
BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND STRONG
GUSTY WINDS.

DAW
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 12:32 PM MDT, 55 minutes before
WYZ065-066-067-068-069-070-NEZ001-002-003-019-020-021-054-055-021930-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
1229 PM MDT SUN JUL 2 1995

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST WYOMING
AND THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE...

AT 1220 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN CHEYENNE INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS
WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN LARAMIE AND ALBANY COUNTIES OF WYOMING
AND IN THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF KIMBALL...BANNER...AND SIOUX
COUNTIES OF NEBRASKA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 15
MPH.

THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN OVER THE NEXT HOUR.
RESIDENTS OF SOUTHEASTERN WYOMING AND THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE
SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POTENHTIAL FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...WITH
BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DEADLY LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND STRONG
GUSTY WINDS.

DAW

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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.