Alert archive / Wyoming / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 1995, 4:29 PM MDT for Goshen County, Laramie County, Wyoming. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 1995, 4:29 PM MDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 1995, 5:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Goshen County, WY, Laramie County, WY
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 2860 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KCYS 112251 RRA SVRCYS WYC015-021-112300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED TO INCLUDE GOSHEN COUNTY CODING. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 429 PM MDT FRI AUG 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING ...EASTERN LARAMIE COUNTY AND SOUTHERN GOSHEN COUNTY THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IN LARAMIE COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING HAS BEEN EXTENDED FOR EASTERN LARAMIE COUNTY UNTIL 5 PM THIS EVENING. THIS DANGEROUS STORM PRODUCED GUSTS TO 60 MILES AN HOUR IN NORTH CHEYENNE EARLIER ALONG WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES THAT THE STRONG WINDS PERSISTS. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR ALONG US HIGHWAY 85 TOWARDS LAGRANGE IN SOUTHERN GOSHEN COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! WYCJIN-WYSE LAUZE
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 11, 3:47 PM MDT, 42 minutes before
WYZ063>070-NEZ019-020-054-112245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 348 PM MDT FRI AUG 11 1995 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN FAR SOUTHEAST WYOMING... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE RUMBLING OVER FAR SOUTHEAST WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON. AT 345 PM MDT...THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHEYENNE. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHEYENNE. HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL WERE OCCURRING WITH THESE TWO STORMS. ALL OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 20 MPH. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE SOUTHWEST PART OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AFTER 4 PM. PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS INTO THIS EVENING. IF A STORM APPROACHES YOUR AREA ...GET INSIDE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. < WCJIN-WYSE HATTEN
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 3:48 PM MDT, 41 minutes before
WYZ063>070-NEZ019-020-054-112245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 348 PM MDT FRI AUG 11 1995 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING IN FAR SOUTHEAST WYOMING... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE RUMBLING OVER FAR SOUTHEAST WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON. AT 345 PM MDT...THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHEYENNE. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHEYENNE. HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL WERE OCCURRING WITH THESE TWO STORMS. ALL OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 20 MPH. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE SOUTHWEST PART OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AFTER 4 PM. PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS INTO THIS EVENING. IF A STORM APPROACHES YOUR AREA ...GET INSIDE UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. < WCJIN-WYSE HATTEN
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 4:20 PM MDT, 9 minutes before
NEZ001-002-003-019-020-021-054-055-120015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 417 PM MDT FRI AUG 11 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING MOVING INTO THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... AT 415 PM MDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING WILL MOVE INTO THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. THE FIRST STORM WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN KIMBALL COUNTY ALONG INTERSTATE 80 BY 425 PM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO BANNER COUNTY AROUND 440 PM MDT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AROUND CHEYENNE WYOMING HAVE PRODUCED WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. PEOPLE IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE SHOULBE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.R BAKER
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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.