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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Cheyenne, WY

June 5, 1996Dawes County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 7:01 PM MDT for Dawes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 29 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
Jun 5, 1996, 7:01 PM MDT (01:01 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1996, 7:30 PM MDT
In force
29 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 01:01 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

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 1996-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 1996-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2305 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
242 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 060107 RRA
SVRCYS
NEC045-060130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
701 PM MDT WED JUN 5 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE
 
   ...SOUTHERN DAWES COUNTY
 
AT 0658 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
ENTERING WESTERN DAWES COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES
NORTHWEST OF CRAWFORD AND WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO THE VICINITY
OF CRAWFORD AND FORT ROBINSON BY 710 PM MDT.
 
THIS STORM IS LIKELY PRODUCING HAIL GREATER THAN ONE INCH AND VERY
STRONG WINDS.
 
THIS IS A D^ANGEROUS STORM!  STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 6:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSSioux34 min
Jun 5, 7:10 PM MDTTornado WarningCYSSioux20 min
Jun 5, 7:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBox Butte35 min
Jun 5, 7:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSMorrill25 min
Jun 5, 8:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSMorrill26 min
Jun 5, 9:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBox Butte44 min
Jun 5, 9:39 PM MDTTornado WarningCYSBox Butte36 min
Jun 5, 9:48 PM MDTTornado WarningCYSBox Butte12 min
Jun 5, 9:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSMorrill35 min
Jun 5, 11:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSScotts Bluff42 min
Jun 5, 11:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSSioux35 min
Jun 5, 11:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSMorrill30 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.