Alert archive / Wyoming / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1996, 5:43 PM MDT for Laramie County, Wyoming. It was in force for 47 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 16, 1996, 5:43 PM MDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1996, 6:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Laramie County, WY
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1401 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 16, 3:51 PM MDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
WYZ062-063-064-065-066-067-069-162245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 349 PM MDT SUN JUN 16 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHEAST WYOMING... AT 345PM THE CHEYENNE RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHEAST WYOMING...PRIMARILY NORTH AND EAST CARBON...ALBANY AND EXTREME SOUTHWEST LARAMIE COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHEYENNE AND WILL AFFECT THE TERRY BISON RANCH rAREA BY 430PM. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS SHOULD BE EXPECTED FROM THE STRONGEST STORMS AS WELL AS DEADLY LIGHTNING. WCJIN-WYSE COX
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 4:58 PM MDT, 45 minutes before
WYZ059-060-067>070-NEZ001-019-020-054-170000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 457 PM MDT SUN JUN 16 1996 ...SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST WYOMING AT 455 PM... THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN PARTS OF LARAMIE COUNTY. ONE STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 15 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF CHEYENNE...WITH MORE STORMS 5 TO 20 MILES WEST AND NORTHWEST OF THE CITY. ANOTHER LONE STORM HAD POPPED UP IN THE VICINITY OF LUSK IN SOUTHERN NIOBRARA COUNTY. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING GENERALLY EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN WILL BE THE MAIN THREATS...ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. BE SURE TO STAY INDOORS WHEN STORMS ARE IN YOUR AREA. WCJIN-WYSE JAD
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 5:36 PM MDT, 7 minutes before
WYZ060-067>070-NEZ001-019-020-054-170030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 535 PM MDT SUN JUN 16 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER SOUTHEAST WYOMING AT 530 PM... STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE CENTRAL PART OF LARAMIE COUNTY ...ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH AND NORTHEAST OF CHEYENNE. ANOTHER STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LUSK IN NIOBRARA COUNTY...WITH MORE STORMS MOVING INTO THE LARAMIE RANGE 20 MILES WEST OF WHEATLAND. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING GENERALLY EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. HEAVY RAIN AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. PEOPLE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN LARAMIE COUNTY...AS WELL AS SOUTHEAST NIOBRARA COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN INDOORS AS THESE STORMS PASS ON BY. WCJIN-WYSE JAD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 5:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Platte | 50 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wyoming, 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.