Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 1996, 6:45 PM MDT for Kimball County, Nebraska. It was in force for 45 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
- Aug 9, 1996, 6:45 PM MDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 1996, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kimball County, NE
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 625 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Aug 9, 3:47 PM MDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
NEZ001-019-020-054-WYZ059-060-067>070-092230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 345 PM MDT FRI AUG 9 1996 AT 330 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NUMBER OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM WESTERN CONVERSE COUNTY INTO WESTERN AND SOUTHCENTRAL SOUTHCENTRAL PLATTE COUNTY. THE STORMS IN WESTERN CONVERSE COUNTY WERE LOCATED 30 MILES WEST NORTH WEST OF DOUGLAS AND 25 MILE NORTH NORTHWEST OF DOUGLAS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. STORMS IN PLATTE COUNTY WERE LOCATED 20 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF WHEATLAND...17 MILES WEST OF WHEATLAND AND 18 MILES SOUTH OF WHEATLAND. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MILES AN HOUR. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED ON THE STORM 18 MILES SOUTH OF WHEATLAND...FOR POSSIBLE LARGE HAIL UNTIL 445 PM. OTHER STORMS MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING UNTIL 445 PM. WCJIN-WYSE PAL
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 5:46 PM MDT, 59 minutes before
WYZ060-068-NEZ001-100030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 545 PM MDT FRI AUG 9 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER CENTRAL NIOBRARA COUNTY EARLY THIS EVENING... AT 540 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE CENTRAL PART OF NIOBRARA COUNTY. AT THAT TIME...THE STORMS WERE FROM 10 NORTH OF LUSK TO NEAR LUSK. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH. AT 543 PM...HEAVY RAIN AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL WERE REPORTED JUST TO THE NORTH OF LUSK. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PEOPLE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN NIOBRARA COUNTY SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTER. WCJIN-WYNE WEILAND
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 6:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Banner | 43 min |
| Aug 9, 6:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sioux | 54 min |
| Aug 9, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Banner, Morrill | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Dawes | 60 min |
| Aug 9, 7:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 7:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 7:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Dawes | 42 min |
| Aug 9, 8:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Cheyenne | 46 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1996Every 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.