Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1996, 7:10 PM MDT for Sioux County, Nebraska. It was in force for 20 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 5, 1996, 7:10 PM MDT (01:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1996, 7:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sioux County, NE
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 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 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 190 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 060112 TORCYS NEC165-060130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 710 PM MDT WED JUN 5 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE ...SOUTHEASTERN SIOUX COUNTY AT 710 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 25 MILES NORTH OF SCOTTSBLUFF JUST EAST OF HIGHWAY 7r1. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE MOVING INTO BOX BUTTE COUNTY AROUND 730 PM. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!
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, 35 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
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, 7:25 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, 9:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Box Butte | 12 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.