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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Cheyenne, WY

May 25, 1995Carbon County, Wyoming

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at May 25, 1995, 4:30 PM MDT for Carbon County, Wyoming. It was in force for 15 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 1995, 4:30 PM MDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1995, 4:45 PM MDT
In force
15 min
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area
Whole counties

County Carbon County, WY

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Lander/Hunt Fiel, WY (KLND), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 192 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, Lander/Hunt Fiel, WY at 12:00Z on 1995-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lander/Hunt Fiel, WY at 12:00Z on 1995-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
175 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 
TTAA00 KCYS 252231
TORCYS
WYC007-252245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
430 PM MDT THU MAY 25 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  445 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL WYOMING
 
   ...NORTHERN CARBON COUNTY
 
AROUND 425 PM...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 13 MILES NORTH OF RAWLINS...
MOVING SLOWLY WEST.
 
 
GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!
 
CGB
WCJIN-WYSW-WYSE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 2:34 PM MDTTornado WarningCYSSweetwater11 min
May 25, 4:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSCarbon35 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Wyoming, 1995Every tornado warning in 1995Tornadoes in 1995

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.