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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1996, 9:48 PM MDT for Box Butte County, Nebraska. It was in force for 12 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 5, 1996, 9:48 PM MDT (03:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1996, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Box Butte County, NE
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 186 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:49 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 9:50 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Alliance, 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
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2305 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCYS 060349 TORCYS NEC013-060400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 948 PM MDT WED JUN 5 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE ...SOUTHEASTERN BOX BUTTE COUNTY AT 945 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF ALLIANCE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST^ AT 35 MPH. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY OF ALLIANCE SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW! MOORE
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 3 hours 13 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, 50 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, 44 minutes before
NEZ001>003-060345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 905 PM MDT WED JUN 5 1996 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ACROSS FAR EAST CENTRAL SIOUX COUNTY AT 900 PM... THE STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 10 TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CRAWFORD AND WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. IT WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST DAWES AND NORTHWEST BOX BUTTE COUNTIES BY 915 PM. THIS STORM LIKELY WAS PRODUCING PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAtIN. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR DAWES AND BOX BUTTE COUNTIES UNTIL 3 AM. PEOPLE IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO ANY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO YOUR AREA. JAD
The office that day
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, 9:55 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 |
| Jun 5, 11:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 30 min |
Nearby
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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.