Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1996, 11:45 PM MDT for Morrill County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 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, 11:45 PM MDT (05:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 1996, 12:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Morrill County, NE
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 363 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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, Jun 5, 6:35 PM MDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
NEZ001>003-060130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 635 PM MDT WED JUN 5 1996 ...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS THE FAR NORTHWEST PART OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AT 630 PM... THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF CHADRON IN NORTH CENTRAL SIOUX COUNTY. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH OF TORRINGTON ALONG THE WYOMING-NEBRASKA BORDER. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH...AND WILL BE AFFECTING PARTS OF THE NORTHERN PANHANDLE THROUGH 730 PM. SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN WILL BE THE MAIN HAZARDS WITH THESE STORMS...ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. BE SURE TO STAY INDOORS WHEN STORMS ARE IN YOUR AREA. JAD
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 8:58 PM MDT, 2 hours 47 minutes before
WYZ060-060345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 900 PM MDT WED JUN 5 1996 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS CENTRAL NIOBRARA COUNTY AT 855 PM... THE STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 25 MILES NORTH OF LUSK...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF LANCE CREEK. IT WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL NIOBRARA COUNTY THROUGH 930 PM. SIMILAR STORMS THIS EVENING HAVE PRODUCED PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. PEOPLE TRAVELING ALONG HIGHWAY 85 NEAR THE JUNCTION WITH HIGHWAY 270 SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THIS STORM. JAD
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 9:04 PM MDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before
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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, 7:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Dawes | 29 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 |
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.