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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1996, 9:39 PM MDT for Box Butte County, Nebraska. It was in force for 36 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, 9:39 PM MDT (03:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1996, 10:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 36 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 03:43 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, 3.7 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 060339 TORCYS NEC013-060415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 939 PM MDT WED JUN 5 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE ...CENTRAL BOX BUTTE COUNTY AT 935 PM MDT...A SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 22 MILES WEST OF ALLIANCE. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HO UR. A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND! TAKE SHELTER NOW! &
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, 9:48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.