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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Cheyenne, WY

August 14, 1996Laramie County, Wyoming

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 1996, 6:13 PM MDT for Laramie County, Wyoming. It was in force for 32 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 14, 1996, 6:13 PM MDT (00:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 1996, 6:45 PM MDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area: Whole counties

County Laramie County, WY

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 14, 6:13 PM MDT	Hail 0.75	Albin, WY
Aug 14, 6:30 PM MDT	Hail 3	Albin, WY

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 202 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: 627 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2385 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Aug 14, 3:35 PM MDT, 2 hours 38 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
Aug 14, 6:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Banner	44 min
Aug 14, 6:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Scotts Bluff	51 min
Aug 14, 7:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Scotts Bluff	45 min
Aug 15, 3:21 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Dawes	39 min
Aug 15, 3:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Kimball	42 min
Aug 15, 3:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Dawes	50 min
Aug 15, 3:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Box Butte	46 min
Aug 15, 4:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Cheyenne	42 min
Aug 15, 4:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Kimball	34 min
Aug 15, 4:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Box Butte	43 min
Aug 15, 4:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Dawes	44 min
Aug 15, 4:50 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	CYS	Cheyenne, Kimball	40 min
Aug 15, 4:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Morrill	50 min
Aug 15, 5:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Morrill	30 min
Aug 14, 6:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Goshen	31 min
Aug 14, 6:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Converse	45 min
Aug 14, 7:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Platte	45 min
Aug 14, 8:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Platte	52 min
Aug 15, 2:25 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Platte	50 min
Aug 15, 2:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Laramie	31 min
Aug 15, 2:36 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Laramie	54 min
Aug 15, 2:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Laramie	47 min
Aug 15, 3:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Laramie	46 min
Aug 15, 4:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Converse	31 min
Aug 15, 5:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Converse	44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wyoming, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.