Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Cheyenne, WY
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.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 6:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sioux | 34 min |
| Jun 5, 7:10 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Sioux | 20 min |
| Jun 5, 7:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 7:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 25 min |
| Jun 5, 8:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 26 min |
| Jun 5, 9:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte | 44 min |
| Jun 5, 9:39 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Box Butte | 36 min |
| Jun 5, 9:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Box Butte | 12 min |
| Jun 5, 9:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 11:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Scotts Bluff | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 11:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sioux | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 11:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 30 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.