Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 1997, 12:54 PM MDT for Banner County, Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 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 25, 1997, 12:54 PM MDT (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1997, 1:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Banner County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:58 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 25, 1:15 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Harrisburg, 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
476 WFUS1 KCYS 251855 RRA TORCYS NEC157-251925- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 1254 PM MDT WED JUN 25 1997 * TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN BANNER COUNTY IN WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE * UNTIL 125 PM MDT * THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT HARRISBURG BY 110 PM. * AT 1251 PM MDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF KIMBALL OR 22 MILES SOUTH OF SCOTTS BLUFF NATIONAL MONUMENT MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A BATHROOM OR SMALL CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOUSE AND COVER YOUR HEAD. JMH &
1 follow-up statement
499 WFUS1 KCYS 251859 RRB TORCYS NEC007-251925- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 1254 PM MDT WED JUN 25 1997 * TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN BANNER COUNTY IN WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE * UNTIL 125 PM MDT * THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT HARRISBURG BY 110 PM. * AT 1251 PM MDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF KIMBALL OR 22 MILES SOUTH OF SCOTTS BLUFF NATIONAL MONUMENT MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A BATHROOM OR SMALL CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOUSE AND COVER YOUR HEAD. JMH &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 1:26 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Banner | 34 min |
| Jun 25, 1:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Kimball | 43 min |
| Jun 25, 1:54 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Kimball | 36 min |
| Jun 25, 2:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Cheyenne, Morrill | 32 min |
| Jun 25, 2:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Kimball | 46 min |
| Jun 25, 2:33 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Cheyenne | 27 min |
| Jun 25, 2:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Cheyenne | 31 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.