Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1997, 3:15 PM MDT for Banner County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 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 19, 1997, 3:15 PM MDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1997, 3:50 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Banner County, NE
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 19, 2:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 2563 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 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 192115 RRA SVRCYS NEC007-192150- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 315 PM MDT THU JUN 19 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN BANNER COUNTY IN WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE * UNTIL 350 PM MDT * SOME AFFECTED LOCATIONS INCLUDE OPEN COUNTRY 20 SOUTHEAST OF HARRISBURG * AT 314 PM MDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HARRISBURG. THIS STORM WAS MOjVING EAST AT 20 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. DO NOT GO OUTDOORS.
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 19, 9:49 AM MDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before
WYZ059>070-NEZ001>003-019>021-054-055-200000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 0950 AM MDT THU JUN 19 1997 THE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL IN THE CHEYENNE NWS COUNTY WARNING AREA IS MEDIUM TODAY...ESPECIALLY IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED...MAINLY IN THE PANHANDLE. DISCUSSION...DRYER AIR HAS MOVED INTO SOUTHEAST WYOMING BUT SOIL MOISTURE FROM YESTERDAY ALONG WITH A COLD FRONT WILL ACT TO ,TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAIN. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. WCJIN-WYSE-WYNE JLA/LRE
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 9:50 AM MDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before
WYZ059>070-NEZ001>003-019>021-054-055-200000- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 0950 AM MDT THU JUN 19 1997 THE SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL IN THE CHEYENNE NWS COUNTY WARNING AREA IS MEDIUM TODAY...ESPECIALLY IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED...MAINLY IN THE PANHANDLE. DISCUSSION...DRYER AIR HAS MOVED INTO SOUTHEAST WYOMING BUT SOIL MOISTURE FROM YESTERDAY ALONG WITH A COLD FRONT WILL ACT TO TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAIN. THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE STORMS WILL BE IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. WCJIN-WYSE-WYNE JLA/LRE
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 2:30 PM MDT, 45 minutes before
WYZ060-068>070-NEZ001>003-019>021-054-055-190300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 230 PM MDT THU JUN 19 1997 A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AND PARTS OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND IS VALID UNTIL 9 PM. COUNTIES IN THE PANHANDLE INCLUDE SIOUX...DAWES...BOX BUTTE...MORRILL ...CHEYENNE...SCOTTS BLUFF...BANNER AND KIMBALL. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE HARRISON...CHADRON...ALLIANCE...BRIDGEPORT...SIDNEY ...KIMBALL...HARRISBURG...AND SCOTTSBLUFF/GERING. COUNTIES IN WYOMING INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE GOSHEN...NIOBRARA... EASTERN LARAMIE COUNTY...EASTERN PLATTE...AND EASTERN CONVERSE COUNTIES. SOME CITIES AND TOWNS IN THE WATCH ARE LUSK...TORRINGTON... WHEATLAND...AND PINE BLUFFS. A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE OVER SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING THROUGH THE AREA WILL RESULT IN SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND TORNADOES ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT TO APPROACHING STORMS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS AS WELL AS YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND WARNING. WCJIN-WYNE-WYSE LRE
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 2:36 PM MDT, 39 minutes before
WYZ060-068>070-NEZ001>003-019>021-054-055-190300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 230 PM MDT THU JUN 19 1997 A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AND PARTS OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND IS VALID UNTIL 9 PM. COUNTIES IN THE PANHANDLE INCLUDE SIOUX...DAWES...BOX BUTTE...MORRILL ...CHEYENNE...SCOTTS BLUFF...BANNER AND KIMBALL. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE HARRISON...CHADRON...ALLIANCE...BRIDGEPORT...SIDNEY ...KIMBALL...HARRISBURG...AND SCOTTSBLUFF/GERING. COUNTIES IN WYOMING INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE GOSHEN...NIOBRARA... EASTERN LARAMIE COUNTY...EASTERN PLATTE...AND EASTERN CONVERSE COUNTIES. SOME CITIES AND TOWNS IN THE WATCH ARE LUSK...TORRINGTON... WHEATLAND...AND PINE BLUFFS. A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS IN PLACE OVER SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING THROUGH THE AREA WILL RESULT IN SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND TORNADOES ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN. PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT TO APPROACHING STORMS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIO0NS AS WELL AS YOUR CABLE TELEVISION PROVIDER FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND WARNING. WCJIN-WYNE-WYSE LRE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 1:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Banner | 50 min |
| Jun 19, 3:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Cheyenne | 46 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.