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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Cheyenne, WY

June 10, 1996Banner County, Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1996, 11:59 PM MDT for Banner County, Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report 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
Jun 10, 1996, 11:59 PM MDT (05:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1996, 1:00 AM MDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Banner County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:03 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 11, 12:02 AM MDTHail 1Henry, NE

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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 207 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, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1996-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 89 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 1996-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
89 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3178 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 7:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSKimball28 min
Jun 11, 2:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSKimball31 min
Jun 10, 6:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSGoshen30 min
Jun 10, 11:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSGoshen39 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.