Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at Jul 17, 1995, 2:13 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Nebraska. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 1995, 2:13 PM MDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 1995, 2:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 32 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 20:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1485 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 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 172016 TORCYS NEC033-172045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 213 PM MDT MON JUL 17 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE ...NORTH CENTRAL CHEYENNE COUNTY THIS INCLUDES THE TOWNS OF DALTON AND GURLEY. AT 210 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN CHEYENNE INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF DALTON IN CHEYENNE COUNTY. THE STORM PRODUCING THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! DAW
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 17, 1:21 PM MDT, 52 minutes before
WYZ019-020-021-054-055-172030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 121 PM MDT MON JUL 17 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING RAPIDLY SOUTHWEST OF BRIDGEPORT IN MORRILL COUNTY... AT 115 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN CHEYENNE INDICATED THAT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INTENSIFYING IN SOUTHWEST MORRILL COUNTY OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. IT WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN CHEYENNE COUNTY AND AFFECT THE TOWN OF DALTON IN THE NEXT 15 TO 30 MINUTES. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR FURTHER INTENSIFICATION OF THIS STORM...AS WELL AS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN THE REMAINDER OF THE PANHANDLE. RESIDENTS SHOULD STAY IN CONTACT WITH NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA. DAW WWUS35KPUB 0
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 1:24 PM MDT, 49 minutes before
WYZ019-020-021-054-055-172030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY}/EYENNE COUNTY AND AFFECT THE TOWN OF DALTON IN THE NEXT 15 TO 30 MINUTES. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR FURTHER INTENSIFICATION OF THIS STORM...AS WELL AS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN THE REMAINDER OF THE PANHANDLE. RESIDENTS SHOULD STAY IN CONTACT WITH NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA. DAW WWUS34KJKL 0
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 1:24 PM MDT, 49 minutes before
WYZ019-020-021-054-055-172030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY}/EYENNE COUNTY AND AFFECT THE TOWN OF DALTON IN THE NEXT 15 TO 30 MINUTES. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR FURTHER INTENSIFICATION OF THIS STORM...AS WELL AS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN THE REMAINDER OF THE PANHANDLE. RESIDENTS SHOULD STAY IN CONTACT WITH NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA. DAW WWUS34KJKL 0
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 1:34 PM MDT, 39 minutes before
WYZ019-020-021-054-055-172030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 121 PM MDT MON JUL 17 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING RAPIDLY SOUTHWEST OF BRIDGEPORT IN MORRILL COUNTY... AT 115 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN CHEYENNE INDICATED THAT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INTENSIFYING IN SOUTHWEST MORRILL COUNTY OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. IT WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN CHEYENNE COUNTY AND AFFECT THE TOWN OF DALTON IN THE NEXT 15 TO 30 MINUTES. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR FURTHER INTENSIFICATION OF THIS STORM...AS WELL AS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN THE REMAINDER OF THE PANHANDLE. RESIDENTS SHOULD STAY IN CONTACT WITH NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA. DAW
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 1:39 PM MDT, 34 minutes before
NEZ019-020-021-054-055-172030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 140 PM MDT MON JUL 17 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING RAPIDLY SOUTHWEST OF BRIDGEPORT IN MORRILL COUNTY... AT 115 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN CHEYENNE INDICATED THAT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INTENSIFYING IN SOUTHWEST MORRILL COUNTY OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. IT WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN CHEYENNE COUNTY AND AFFECT THE TOWN OF DALTON IN THE NEXT 15 TO 30 MINUTES. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR FURTHER INTENSIFICATION OF THIS STORM...AS WELL AS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN THE REMAINDER OF THE PANHANDLE. RESIDENTS SHOULD STAY IN CONTACT WITH NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA. CORRECTED CODING IN HEADER DAW
Special weather statement, Jul 17, 1:40 PM MDT, 33 minutes before
NEZ019-020-021-054-055-172030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 140 PM MDT MON JUL 17 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING RAPIDLY SOUTHWEST OF BRIDGEPORT IN MORRILL COUNTY... AT 115 PM DOPPLER RADAR IN CHEYENNE INDICATED THAT A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS INTENSIFYING IN SOUTHWEST MORRILL COUNTY OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. IT WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN CHEYENNE COUNTY AND AFFECT THE TOWN OF DALTON IN THE NEXT 15 TO 30 MINUTES. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR FURTHER INTENSIFICATION OF THIS STORM...AS WELL AS THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN THE REMAINDER OF THE PANHANDLE. RESIDENTS SHOULD STAY IN CONTACT WITH NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA. CORRECTED CODING IN HEADER DAW WUUS01KCYS 0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 1:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 43 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.