Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at Jul 25, 1996, 3:14 PM MDT for Box Butte County, Nebraska. It was in force for 46 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 25, 1996, 3:14 PM MDT (21:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 1996, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Box Butte County, NE
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1792 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 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 252115 TORCYS NEC013-252200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 314 PM MDT THU JUL 25 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE ...WESTERN BOX BUTTE COUNTY AT 312 PM...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 35 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF ALLIANCE. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO NORTHWEST BOX BUTTE COUNTY FROM DAWES COUNTY. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND! TAKE SHELTER NOW! JAD
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 25, 10:06 AM MDT, 5 hours 8 minutes before
WYZ059>070-NEZ001>003-019>021-054-055-252300-
SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
1005 AM MDT THU JUL 25 1996
THE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL IN THE COUNTY WARNING AREA OF THE CHEYENNE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IS MEDIUM THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
DISCUSSION...THE AIR MASS HAS BECOME MORE MOIST AND UNSTABLE OVER THE
AREA. UPSLOPE WINDS AT THE SURFACE WILL COMBINE WITH AN UPPER LEVEL
DISTURBANCE MOVING IN FROM THE WEST TO TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS.
SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME QUITE STRONG THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH
THIS EVENING.
THIS OUTLOOK IS FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND
THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE.
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NE...BANNER BOX BUTTE CHEYENNE DAWES KIMBALL MORRILL SIOUX
SCOTTS BLUFF
WCJIN-WYSE-WYNE
JLHSpecial weather statement, Jul 25, 12:53 PM MDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
WYZ065-066-069-070-NEZ020-054-251945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 1252 PM MDT THU JUL 25 1996 ...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN LARAMIE COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING AT 1250 PM... THE STORMS WERE LOCATED IN FAR WESTERN LARAMIE COUNTY ABOUT 20 TO 30 MILES WEST AND NORTHWEST OF CHEYENNE. THEY WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH...AND WILL BE APPROACHING THE WESTERN PART OF CHEYENNE BY 115 PM. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN...ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE AT THE FRONTIER PARK SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE IF THESE STORMS MOVE RIGHT OVER THE CITY.. WCJIN-WYSE JAD
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 1:42 PM MDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
WYZ069-070-252045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 143 PM MDT THU JUL 25 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS WESTERN LARAMIE COUNTY AT 140 PM... THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 20 TO 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHEYENNE IN NORTHWEST LARAMIE COUNTY. ANOTHER STORM WAS ABOUT 10 TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE CITY...WITH YET ANOTHER ONE ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHEYENNE. MOST OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE CLOSEST STORM TO CHEYENNE COULD CLIP THE NORTHERN PARTS OF THE CITY BETWEEN 200 AND 230 PM. MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN HAVE BEEN OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...SO BE READY TO MOVE INDOORS OR TO A SAFE PLACE IF A ST~ORM MOVES INTO YOUR AREA. WCJIN-WYSE JAD
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 2:05 PM MDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
NEZ001-002-003-019-020-021-054-055-252100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 205 PM MDT THU JUL 25 1996 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 9 PM FOR THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE... THE STRONGEST STORMS AT 2 PM WERE IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE PANHANDLE ACROSS CENTRAL SIOUX...WESTERN AND SOUTHERN DAWES... AND NORTHERN BOX BUTTE COUNTIES. THE WORST STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHADRON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH. SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 9 PM FOR THE PANHANDLE. STAY ALERT TO ANY STORMS MOVING INTO YOUR AREA...AND BE READY TO MO(VE TO A SAFE PLACE. JAD
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 2:25 PM MDT, 49 minutes before
WYZ067>070-252115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 225 PM MDT THU JUL 25 1996 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR FAR SOUTHEAST WYOMING UNTIL 9 PM... CONDITIONS ARE RIPE FOR SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS FAR SOUTHEAST WYOMING...AND SO A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED UNTIL 9 PM. AT 220 PM...THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED IN NORTH CENTRAL LARAMIE COUNTY ABOUT 20 TO 30 MILES NORTH OF CHEYENNE. OTHER WEAKER STORMS WERE IN THE CHEYENNE AREA...AND ALSO ACROSS PARTS OF WESTERN PLATTE COUNTY. MOST STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING SHOULD KEEP AN EYE ON WEATHER CONDITIONS IN YOUR AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW rOF THE STORMS COULD BECOME QUITE STRONG...SO BE READY TO MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE IF YOU NEED TO. WCJIN-WYSE JAD
Special weather statement, Jul 25, 3:00 PM MDT, 14 minutes before
WYZ067>070-252200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 300 PM MDT THU JUL 25 1996 ...A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST WYOMING AT 255 PM... THE STRONGEST STORM AT 255 PM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TORRINGTON IN SOUTHERN GOSHEN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 5 TO 15 MILES WEST OF LA GRANGE. A FEW MUCH WEAKER STORMS WERE SCATTERED ABOUT SOUTHERN PLATTE AND PARTS OF LARAMIE COUNTY. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING EAST OR SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN GOSHEN COUNTY SHOULD BE READY TO MOVE INDOORS IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. WCJIN-WYSE JAD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 2:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte, Dawes | 65 min |
| Jul 25, 3:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Banner | 64 min |
| Jul 25, 4:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte, Cheyenne, Morrill | 60 min |
| Jul 25, 4:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Scotts Bluff | 37 min |
| Jul 25, 4:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Scotts Bluff | 30 min |
| Jul 25, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill, Scotts Bluff | 45 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 1996Every tornado warning in 1996Tornadoes 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.