Alert archive / Nebraska / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Cheyenne, WY

June 23, 1998Box Butte County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1998, 6:02 PM MDT for Box Butte County, Nebraska. It was in force for 33 min. 2 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 23, 1998, 6:02 PM MDT (00:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1998, 6:35 PM MDT
In force
33 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 00:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 23, 6:22 PM MDTHail 0.75Hemingford, NE
Jun 23, 6:34 PM MDTHail 0.88Hemingford, 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, 0.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 1998-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2260 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 1998-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 141 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2260 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1169 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.1
Supercell composite
16.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

605 
WUUS1 KCYS 240000 RRA
SVRCYS
NEC013-240035-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
602 PM MDT TUE JUN 23 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BOX BUTTE COUNTY IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE

* UNTIL 635 PM MDT

* AT 555 PM MDT ...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES NORTH OF ALLIANCE...OR 6 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF HEMINGFORD... MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ONLY OPEN AREAS

THIS STORM PREVIOUSLY PRODUCED A FUNNEL CLOUD.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LRE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 3:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSDawes46 min
Jun 24, 4:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSDawes44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.