Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1995, 6:35 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Nebraska. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 1995, 6:35 PM MDT (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 1995, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cheyenne County, NE
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 3401 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 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 040037 RRA SVRCYS NEC033-040100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 635 PM MDT THU AUG 3 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE ...EASTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY THIS WARNING INCLUDES THE TOWNS OF LODGEPOLE AND SUNOL. THIS WARNING DOES NOT INCLUDE THE CITY OF SIDNEY. AT 630 PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEAST CHEYENNE COUNTY 4 MILES SOUTH OF LODGEPOLE OR 15 MILES EAST OF SIDNEY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD PRODUCE LARGE JHAIL AT LEAST AN INCH IN DIAMETER. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! BAKER
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, Aug 3, 4:12 PM MDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
WYZ061-062-065>070-NEZ001-019-020-054-032300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
410 PM MDT THU AUG 3 1995
...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEAST WYOMING...
AT 4 PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY CONTINUING IN
SOUTHEAST WYOMING BUT IT HAD BECOME LESS WIDESPREAD AND WEAKENED
SOMEWHAT IN THE PAST HOUR. AN AREA OF STORMS WAS MOVING THROUGH
NORTHEAST LARAMIE COUNTY AND EASTERN GOSHEN COUNTY. THESE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO ENTERING SCOTTS BLUFF...BANNER AND KIMBALL
COUNTIES IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE.
THE STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS WAS ON THE BORDER OF NORTHEAST LARAMIE
COUNTY WYOMING AND SOUTHWEST BANNER COUNTY NEBRASKA. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS STRADDLING THE COLORADO-NEBRASKA BORDER IN
SOUTHWEST KIMBALL COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY AND THE
STRONGEST PART OF THIS STORM WAS IN COLORADO. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED
TO BEGIN MOVING EAST.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 9 PM FOR THE NEBRASKA
PANHANDLE. PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND ESPECIALLY THE NEBRASKA
PANHANDLE SHOULD BE ALERT TO APPROACHING STORMS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK
SHELTER.
WCJIN-WYSE
JMH
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 4:50 PM MDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
NEZ001>003-019>021-054-055-032345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 450 PM MDT THU AUG 3 1995 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVER MUCH OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OR MOVE INTO THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON. MOST OF THE ACTIVITY WAS FAIRLY WEAK. ONE STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED IN EXTREME SOUTHERN KIMBALL COUNTY NEAR ROUTE 71. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. ANOTHER FAIRLY STRONG STORM WAS MOVING EAST OF HARRISBURG IN BANNER COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 9 PM FOR THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. BE ALERT TO APPROACHING STORMS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JMH
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 4:53 PM MDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
NEZ001>003-019>021-054-055-032345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 450 PM MDT THU AUG 3 1995 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVER MUCH OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO DEVELOP OR MOVE INTO THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON. MOST OF THE ACTIVITY WAS FAIRLY WEAK. ONE STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED IN EXTREME SOUTHERN KIMBALL COUNTY NEAR ROUTE 71. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. ANOTHER FAIRLY STRONG STORM WAS MOVING EAST OF HARRISBURG IN BANNER COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 9 PM FOR THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. BE ALERT TO APPROACHING STORMS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JMH
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 6:13 PM MDT, 22 minutes before
NEZ054-055-040215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 613 PM MDT THU AUG 3 1995 ...AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM NEAR SIDNEY NEBRASKA... AT 608 PM MDT CHEYENNE DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM FIVE MILES SOUTHEAST OF SIDNEY NEBRASKA. THE STORM WAS JUST SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80 AND WAS SLATED TO CROSS INTERSTATE 80 JUST EAST OF SIDNEY NEBRASKA WITHIN THE NEXT 20 MINUTES. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. RADAR INDICATED THAT SOME HAIL WAS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM ALONG WITH GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND INTENSE LIGHTNING. PEOPLE IN THE SOUTHERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE...AND THOSE DRIVING ALONG INTERSTATE 80...SHOULD BE ADVISED OF THIS STORM AND KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA UNTIL 9PM MDT THIS EVENING. PARKER
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 6:14 PM MDT, 21 minutes before
NEZ054-055-040215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 613 PM MDT THU AUG 3 1995 ...AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM NEAR SIDNEY NEBRASKA... AT 608 PM MDT CHEYENNE DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM FIVE MILES SOUTHEAST OF SIDNEY NEBRASKA. THE STORM WAS JUST SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80 AND WAS SLATED TO CROSS INTERSTATE 80 JUST EAST OF SIDNEY NEBRASKA WITHIN THE NEXT 20 MINUTES. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. RADAR INDICATED THAT SOME HAIL WAS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM ALONG WITH GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND INTENSE LIGHTNING. PEOPLE IN THE SOUTHERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE...AND THOSE DRIVING ALONG INTERSTATE 80...SHOULD BE ADVISED OF THIS STORM AND KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA UNTIL 9PM MDT THIS EVENING. PARKER
Special weather statement, Aug 3, 6:28 PM MDT, 7 minutes before
NEZ054-055-040215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 613 PM MDT THU AUG 3 1995 ...AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM NEAR SIDNEY NEBRASKA... AT 608 PM MDT CHEYENNE DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM FIVE MILES SOUTHEAST OF SIDNEY NEBRASKA. THE STORM WAS JUST SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80 AND WAS SLATED TO CROSS INTERSTATE 80 JUST EAST OF SIDNEY NEBRASKA WITHIN THE NEXT 20 MINUTES. MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. RADAR INDICATED THAT SOME HAIL WAS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM ALONG WITH GUSTY SURFACE WINDS AND INTENSE LIGHTNING. PEOPLE IN THE SOUTHERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE...AND THOSE DRIVING ALONG INTERSTATE 80...SHOULD BE ADVISED OF THIS STORM AND KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN NEBRASKA UNTIL 9PM MDT THIS EVENING. PARKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 4:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Dawes | 25 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.