Alert archive / Wyoming / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 1995, 3:30 PM MDT for Albany County, Wyoming. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 30, 1995, 3:30 PM MDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 1995, 4:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Albany County, WY
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 270 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
- 3748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCYS 302133 RRA SVRCYS WYC001-302215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 330 PM MDT SUN JUL 30 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING ...SOUTHEASTERN ALBANY COUNTY AND WEST CENTRAL LARAMIE COUNTY THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE TOWNS OF HORSE CREEK AND FEDERAL. AT 325 PM RADAR IN CHEYENNE INDICATED A SEVERE STORM 5 MILES NORTH OF BUFORD IN SOUTHEAST ALBANY COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 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 30, 1:57 PM MDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
WYZ061-062-063-064-065-066-067-068-069-070-302100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 157 PM MDT SUN JUL 30 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL WYOMING... AT 145 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN CHEYENNE SHOWED THAT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN CHEYENNE...AS WELL AS IN EASTERN LARAMIE COUNTY JUST EAST OF BURNS...AND IN SOUTHERN CARBON COUNTY SOUTH OF SARATOGA. STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. AT THIS POINT DEADLY LIGHTNING IS THE MOST THREATENING ASPECT OF THESE STORMS. HOWEVER SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR FURTHER STRENGTHENING OF THESE STORMS IN THE NEXT HOUR...AS WELL AS NEW STORM DEVELOPMENT OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN PORTION OF THE STATE. DAW
Special weather statement, Jul 30, 1:59 PM MDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
WYZ061-062-063-064-065-066-067-068-069-070-302100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 157 PM MDT SUN JUL 30 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL WYOMING... AT 145 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN CHEYENNE SHOWED THAT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN CHEYENNE...AS WELL AS IN EASTERN LARAMIE COUNTY JUST EAST OF BURNS...AND IN SOUTHERN CARBON COUNTY SOUTH OF SARATOGA. STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. AT THIS POINT DEADLY LIGHTNING IS THE MOST THREATENING ASPECT OF THESE STORMS. HOWEVER SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR FURTHER STRENGTHENING OF THESE STORMS IN THE NEXT HOUR...AS WELL AS NEW STORM DEVELOPMENT OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN PORTION OF THE STATE. DAW
Special weather statement, Jul 30, 2:42 PM MDT, 48 minutes before
WYZ068-070-NEZ001-002-003-019-020-021-054-055-302145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 242 PM MDT SUN JUL 30 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHWEST OF PINE BLUFFS... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLY CONTAINING SMALL HAIL WAS LOCATED ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF PINE BLUFFS AT 235 PM. THIS STORM WAS LIKELY PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL BE CROSSING INTO WESTERN KIMBALL COUNTY NEBRASKA BY 255 PM. RESIDENTS IN ALL OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. DAW
Special weather statement, Jul 30, 2:43 PM MDT, 47 minutes before
WYZ068-070-NEZ001-002-003-019-020-021-054-055-302145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 242 PM MDT SUN JUL 30 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHWEST OF PINE BLUFFS... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLY CONTAINING SMALL HAIL WAS LOCATED ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF PINE BLUFFS AT 235 PM. THIS STORM WAS LIKELY PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL BE CROSSING INTO WESTERN KIMBALL COUNTY NEBRASKA BY 255 PM. RESIDENTS IN ALL OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. DAW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 7:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sweetwater | 58 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.