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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Cheyenne, WY

July 13, 1996Kimball County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at Jul 13, 1996, 7:33 PM MDT for Kimball County, Nebraska. It was in force for 17 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: Jul 13, 1996, 7:33 PM MDT (01:33 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 1996, 7:50 PM MDT
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area: Whole counties

County Kimball County, NE

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 153 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1605 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1342 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 298 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 7.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCYS 140135
TORCYS
NEC105-140145-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
733 PM MDT SAT JUL 13 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  750 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE
 
   ...WESTERN KIMBALL COUNTY INCLUDING BUSHNELL...
 
A TORNADO HAS BEEN REPORTED IN EXTREME EASTERN LARAMIE COUNTY IN WYOMING
MOVING INTO EXTREME WESTERN KIMBALL COUNTY.
 
IF YOU ARE IN A CAR OR MOBILE HOME...ABANDON IT!  GO IN A NEARBY
STURDY BUILDING! AS A LAST RESORT LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AND COVER YOUR
HEAD.
 
BAKER
 
 
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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, Jul 13, 1:35 PM MDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before

WYZ059-060-064>070-132100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
135 PM MDT SAT JUL 13 1996

AT 130 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHEAST
WYOMING.  TWO STRONG STORMS CLOSE TO EACH OTHER HAD DEVELOPED IN WESTERN
LARAMIE COUNTY AND WERE ABOUT 15 MILES WEST TO NORTHWEST OF CHEYENNE.
THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH OR
NEAR CHEYENNE BY 230 PM.

A CLUSTER OF STORMS WAS LOCATED IN WESTERN PLATTE COUNTY AND NORTHERN
ALBANY COUNTY WITH A FEW MORE STORMS SURROUNDING LARAMIE.

BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH
THE EVENING.  PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR
THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  IF A STORM APPROACHES...BE
SURE TO MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTER.

WCJIN-WYSE-WYNE
HARRISON

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 2:17 PM MDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before

WYZ067>070-132130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
217 PM MDT SAT JUL 13 1996

...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF WYOMING
UNTIL 900 PM...

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH
FOR THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF WYOMING.  THIS WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL
900 PM.  THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE CITIES OF CHEYENNE...TORRINGTON...
WHEATLAND AND PINE BLUFFS.

A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE FAVROABLE FOR THE
FORMATION OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND EVEN TORNADOES.

AT 210 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST
LARAMIE COUNTY.  OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ABOUT SOUTHEAST
WYOMING...BUT WERE NOT AS STRONG.
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NOW IS THE TIME TO PREPARE FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
AND TORNADOES.  PLEASE REVIEW SAFETY RULES AND LOCATE A NEARBY PLACE
OF SAFETY.  IOF A STORM APPROACHES...MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTER.

WCJIN-WYSE
WEILAND

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 3:51 PM MDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before

WYZ068-132215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
350 PM MDT SAT JUL 13 1996

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES FOR EASTERN GOSHEN COUNTY UNTIL
4 PM MDT. AT 348 PM RADnAR SHOWED ONE STORM JUST EAST OF TORRINGTON AND
ANOTHER STORM 18 MILES NORTH OF TORRINGTON. THESE STORMS CONTINUED TO
MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

HARRISON

Local storm report, Jul 13, 5:52 PM MDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION TO HAIL SIZE SECOND REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WYOMING
544 PM MDT SAT JUL 13 1996

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0330 PM    CHEYENNE                  WY   .75 INCH HAIL
07/13/96   LARAMIE                        10NW CHEYENNE AT TELEPHONE
                                          AND HORSE CREEK ROADS

0335 PM    CHEYENNE                  WY   .75 INCH HAIL
07/13/96   LARAMIE                        THREE QUARTER TO FIVE
                                          EIGHTHS HAIL 2W CHEYENNE

0346 PM    CHEYENNE                  WY   1.25 INCH HAIL
07/13/96   LARAMIE                        ONE AND A QUARTER INCH
                                          HAIL 9SW CHEYENNE

0515 PM    GLENDO                    WY   1.75 INCH HAIL

07/13/96   PLATTE                         GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL AT
                p                          GLENDO (NUMBER OF OCCURRENCES)

Local storm report, Jul 13, 6:29 PM MDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WYOMING
625 PM MDT SAT JUL 13 1996

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0330 PM    CHEYENNE                  WY   .75 INCH HAIL
07/13/96   LARAMIE                        10NW CHEYENNE AT TELEPHONE
                                          AND HORSE CREEK ROADS

0335 PM    CHEYENNE                  WY   .75 INCH HAIL
07/13/96   LARAMIE                        THREE QUARTER TO FIVE
                                          EIGHTHS HAIL 2W CHEYENNE

0346 PM    CHEYENNE                  WY   1.25 INCH HAIL
07/13/96   LARAMIE                        ONE AND A QUARTER INCH
                                          HAIL 9SW CHEYENNE

0515 PM    GLENDO                    WY   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/13/96   PLATTE                         GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL AT
                                          GLENDO (NUMBER OF OCCURRENCES)

0600PM     FT. LARAMIE               WY   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/13/96   GOSHEN                         GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL AT OLD
                                          FT. LARAMIE HISTORIC SITE

0610PM     FT. LARAMIE               WTY   1.25 INCH HAIL
07/13/96   GOSHEN                         AT TOWN OF FT. LARAMIE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 7:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Banner, Kimball	50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.