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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Cheyenne, WY

July 26, 1996Dawes County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 1996, 11:39 PM MDT for Dawes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 21 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 26, 1996, 11:39 PM MDT (05:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 1996, 12:00 AM MDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area: Whole counties

County Dawes County, NE

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 152 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 851 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -1.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 26, 7:35 PM MDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before

NEZ001-003-019>021-270230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
726 PM MDT FRI JUL 26 1996

AT 730 PM MDT...DOPPLER INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES
NORTHWEST OF SCOTTSBLUFF IN SOUTHWEST SIOUX COUNTY.  THE STORM WAS
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.  ON THIS TRACK...THE STORM WILL
BE IN THE VICINITY OF SCOTTSBLUFF BY 8 PM MDT.

SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS
CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM UNTIL 830 PM MDT.

PAL

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 7:40 PM MDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before

NEZ001-003-019>021-270230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
739 PM MDT FRI JUL 26 1996

AT 730 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES
NORTHWEST OF SCOTTSBLUFF IN SOUTHWEST SIOUX COUNTY.  THE STORM WAS
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.  ON THIS TRACK...THE STORM WILL
BE IN THE VICINITY OF SCOTTSBLUFF BY 8 PM MDT.

SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS
CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM UNTIL 830 PM MDT.

PAL

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 7:52 PM MDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

WYZ059-064-067-270245-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
750 PM MDT FRI JUL 26 1996

AT 745 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A BROAD AREA OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDRSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF LARAMIE TO 15 MILES
WEST OF DOUGLAS AND NORTHWEST TO CASPER.  THE STRONGEST STORM WAS
LOCATED 30 MILES WEST OF DOUGLAS ALONG THE NIOBRARA...CONVERSE COUNTY
LINE.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED
FROM THE STRONGER STORM AS IS MOVES ACROSS SOUTHERN CONVERSE AND
NORTHERN ALBANY COUNTY THROUGH 830 PM.

WCJIN-WYSE-WYNE
PAL

Special weather statement, Jul 26, 10:43 PM MDT, 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 11:06 PM MDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 26, 11:14 PM MDT, 25 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 26, 6:01 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Cheyenne	59 min
Jul 26, 11:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Sioux	46 min
Jul 26, 11:56 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Box Butte	64 min
Jul 26, 8:19 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Converse	41 min
Jul 26, 8:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Converse	46 min
Jul 26, 9:28 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Converse	47 min
Jul 26, 9:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Platte	48 min
Jul 26, 9:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Niobrara	61 min
Jul 27, 5:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Laramie	45 min
Jul 27, 5:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Laramie	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.