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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 233, NWS Cheyenne, WY

August 28, 1996Sioux County, Nebraska; Goshen County, Niobrara County, Wyoming

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1996, 8:40 PM MDT for Sioux County, Nebraska; Goshen County, Niobrara County, Wyoming. It was in force for 65 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 28, 1996, 8:40 PM MDT (02:40 UTC)
Expired: Aug 28, 1996, 9:45 PM MDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Sioux County, NE, Goshen County, WY, Niobrara County, WY

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 28, 3:45 PM MDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 28, 4:22 PM MDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 28, 4:30 PM MDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 28, 5:23 PM MDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 28, 5:33 PM MDT, 3 hours 7 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 28, 6:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Banner	64 min
Aug 28, 6:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Sioux	57 min
Aug 28, 6:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Banner	62 min
Aug 28, 6:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Scotts Bluff	56 min
Aug 28, 7:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Scotts Bluff	36 min
Aug 28, 7:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Box Butte, Morrill	61 min
Aug 28, 7:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Sioux	60 min
Aug 28, 7:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Sioux	57 min
Aug 28, 8:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Dawes	59 min
Aug 29, 5:25 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	CYS	Cheyenne	2 hr
Aug 29, 5:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Cheyenne	63 min
Aug 28, 6:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Niobrara	26 min
Aug 29, 3:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Laramie	60 min
Aug 29, 4:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Laramie	35 min
Aug 29, 4:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Laramie	63 min
Aug 29, 5:10 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	CYS	Laramie	65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wyoming, 1996 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.