Alert archive / Wyoming / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1997, 5:57 PM MDT for Laramie County, Wyoming; Kimball County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 min. 4 reports 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 14, 1997, 5:57 PM MDT (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 1997, 6:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kimball County, NE, Laramie County, WY
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:58 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 14, 6:05 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Albin, WY | |
| Jun 14, 6:05 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Albin, WY | |
| Jun 14, 6:15 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Bushnell, NE | |
| Jun 14, 6:15 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Bushnell, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 4:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 262 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 922 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 3:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Converse | 45 min |
| Jun 14, 5:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Laramie | 33 min |
| Jun 14, 5:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Laramie | 26 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Wyoming, 1997Tornado Warnings in Nebraska, 1997Every tornado warning in 1997Tornadoes in 1997
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.