Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Cheyenne, WY

May 16, 1996Dawes County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1996, 5:59 PM MDT for Dawes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 61 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
May 16, 1996, 5:59 PM MDT (23:59 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1996, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
61 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 00:02 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 12:00Z, 12.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 1996-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 510 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 1996-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 205 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
510 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-292 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1309 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
205 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
223 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCYS 170001
SVRCYS
NEC045-170100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
559 PM MDT THU MAY 16 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE
 
   ...DAWES COUNTY
 
AT 555 PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHADRON. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.  IT WILL REACH THE CITY OF CHADRON AROUND
615 PM.
 
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY.  GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
 
PAL

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, May 16, 12:45 PM MDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
WYZ014-018-020>025-061>063-065-170200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
1245 PM MDT THU MAY 16 1996

...STRONG WINDS WERE NOTED OVER SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL WYOMING...

THERE WERE STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS FROM EVANSTON EAST TO LARAMIE EARLY
THIS AFTERNOON.  SUSTAINED SPEEDS OF 25 TO 40 MPH WERE COMMON WITH SOME
GUSTS AROUND 50 MPH.

STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE INTO EARLY THIS EVENING IN
SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL WYOMING.  SOME GUSTS MAY REACH 50 TO 55 MPH
BEFORE THE WINDS DECREASE THIS EVENING BEHIND A PACIFIC COLD FRONT.

IF YOU ARE TRAVELING ACROSS SOUTHERN WYOMING WEST OF LARAMIE THIS
AFTERNOON...YOU SHOULD BE READY FOR STRONG WINDS AND SUDDEN WIND GUSTS.
THOSE IN LIGHTWEIGHT OR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION.

WCJIN-WYSW-WYSE
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Special weather statement, May 16, 4:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
WYZ011>025-059>070-171200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
400 PM MDT THU MAY 16 1996

...STRONG WINDS OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON WILL
SHIFT INTO THE SOUTHEAST ON FRIDAY...

STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WERE OCCURRING ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM
CASPER TO LARAMIE THIS AFTERNOON.  SPEEDS OF 25 TO 40 MPH WERE COMMON
WITH GUSTS BETWEEN 50 AND 55 MPH.  EAST OF THE CASPER TO LARAMIE LINE
...LOWER WIND SPEEDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WERE NOTED IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING.

THE STRONG WINDS IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST WYOMING WILL PERSIST
EARLY THIS EVENING...BEFORE DECREASING TO 20 TO 35 MPH BY MIDNIGHT.  IN
SOUTHEAST WYOMING...WINDS WILL REMAIN AT 15 TO 25 MPH TONIGHT.

IT WILL BE QUITE WINDY OVER ALL OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN WYOMING ON
FRIDAY WITH WEST WINDS OF 25 TO 40 MPH.  SOME GUSTS AROUND 50 MPH WILL
ALSO OCCUR IN MOST ARES AS WELL.
IF YOU ARE PLANNING TRAVEL IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN WYOMING THIJS EVENING
OR FRIDAY...YOU SHOULD BE READY FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS.  THOSE IN
LIGHTWEIGHT OR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ARE URGED TO USE EXTRA CAUTION.

WCJIN-WYALL

JLH
Special weather statement, May 16, 4:48 PM MDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
WYZ068-NEZ019-020-162345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
446 PM MDT THU MAY 16 1996

AT 445 PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR AT CHEYENE INDICATED A DEVELOPING
THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF LAGRANGE IN SOUTHEAST GOSHEN COUNTY
WYOMING.  THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STORM WAS ENTERING THE EXTREME NORTHWEST
CORNER OF BANEY COUNTY AND THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SCOTTS BLUFFS
COUNTY NEBRA\SKA.  THE STORM WILL REACH GERING BETWEEN 515 TO 530 PM.

SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS CAN BE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

PAL
Special weather statement, May 16, 4:51 PM MDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
WYZ068-NEZ019-020-162345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED BANNER COUNTY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
446 PM MDT THU MAY 16 1996

AT 445 PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR AT CHEYENNE INDICATED A DEVELOPING
THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF LAGRANGE IN SOUTHEAST GOSHEN COUNTY
WYOMING.  THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STORM WAS ENTERING THE EXTREME NORTHWEST
CORNER OF BANNER COUNTY AND THE SOUTHWEST CORNER nOF SCOTTS BLUFFS
COUNTY NEBRASKA.  THE STORM WILL REACH GERING BETWEEN 515 TO 530 PM.

SMALL HAIL...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS CAN BE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

PAL
Special weather statement, May 16, 5:51 PM MDT, 8 minutes before
WYZ054-056-057-170600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
550 PM MDT THU MAY 16 1996

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM 600 PM TO MIDNIGHT MDT FOR
EXTREME NORTHEAST WYOMING...

A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF WYOMING.
THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT FROM 600 PM TO MIDNIGHT MDT.

COUNTIES IN THE WATCH AREA ARE WESTON AND THE NORTHERN HALF OF
CAMPBELL.  CITIES IN THE WATCH INCLUDE GILLETTE...MOORCROFT...AND
SUNDANCE.

A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF
SEVERE WEATHER...INCLUDING TORNADOES.

MONITOR COMMERCIAL BROADCAST STATIONS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER
DEVLOPMENTS...AND KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY.  IF THREATENING WEATHER
APPROACHES...TAKE SHELTER INDOORS.

IF POSSIBLE...REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OCCURRANCES TO LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES.  REQUEST THAT THEY RELAY REPORTS TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

CGB
WCJIN-WYNE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 6:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSDawes62 min
May 15, 8:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSMorrill13 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.