Alert archive / Wyoming / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1997, 4:42 PM MDT for Niobrara County, Wyoming. It was in force for 63 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 1, 1997, 4:42 PM MDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 1997, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Niobrara County, WY
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -382 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 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 012243 RRA SVRCYS WYC027-012345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 442 PM MDT SUN JUN 1 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN NIOBRARA COUNTY IN EASTERN WYOMING * UNTIL 545 PM MDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED MANVILLE BY 507 PM MDT * AT 440 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LUSK OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MANVILLE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM ALL WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. JMH
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 1, 2:45 PM MDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
WYZ059>060-020000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 245 PM MDT SUN JUN 1 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL WYOMING UNTIL 9 PM THIS EVENING... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR EAST CENTRAL WYOMING AND IS VALID UNTIL 9 PM THIS SUNDAY EVENING. THE COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL WYOMING INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH ARE CONVERSE AND NIOBRARA. SOME TOWNS INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE DOUGLAS AND LUSK. THE AIRMASS OVER EAST CENTRAL WYOMING IS MOIST AND UNSTABLE. A COLD FRONT APPROACHING THE AREA ALONG WITH GOOD SURFACE HEATING WILL HELP LIFT THIS UNSTABLE AIR TO FORM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING THREE QUARTER INCH DIAMETER HAIL OR LARGER AND WIND GUSTS GREATER THAN 55 MPH. PEOPLE IN EAST CENTRAL WYOMING SHOULD BE ALERT TO APPROACHING STORMS. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELEVISION AND YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER. REPORT ANY LARGE DAMAGING HAIL OR DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. WCJIN-WYNE JMH
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 2:49 PM MDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
WYZ059>060-020000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 245 PM MDT SUN JUN 1 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL WYOMING UNTIL 9 PM THIS EVENING... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR EAST CENTRAL WYOMING AND IS VALID UNTIL 9 PM THIS SUNDAY EVENING. THE COUNTIES IN EAST CENTRAL WYOMING INCLUDED IN THIS WATCH ARE CONVERSE AND NIOBRARA. SOME TOWNS INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE DOUGLAS AND LUSK. THE AIRMASS OVER EAST CENTRAL WYOMING IS MOIST AND UNSTABLE. A COLD FRONT APPROACHING THE AREA ALONG WITH GOOD SURFACE HEATING WILL HELP LIFT THIS UNSTABLE AIR TO FORM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE WILL LIKELY BECOME SEVERE...PRODUCING THREE QUARTER INCH DIAMETER HAIL OR LARGER AND WIND GUSTS GREATER THAN 55 MPH. PEOPLE IN EAST CENTRAL WYOMING SHOULD BE ALERT TO APPROACHING STORMS. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELEVISION AND YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER. REPORT ANY LARGE DAMAGING HAIL OR DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. WCJIN-WYNE JMH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Platte | 47 min |
| Jun 1, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Niobrara | 45 min |
| Jun 1, 4:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Goshen, Laramie | 44 min |
| Jun 1, 5:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Niobrara | 48 min |
| Jun 1, 5:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Laramie | 46 min |
| Jun 1, 5:48 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Laramie | 17 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.