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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Cheyenne, WY

June 9, 1998Banner County, Cheyenne County, Kimball County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 1998, 5:03 PM MDT for Banner County, Cheyenne County, Kimball County, Nebraska. It was in force for 17 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 9, 1998, 5:03 PM MDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1998, 5:20 PM MDT
In force
17 min
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Banner County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Kimball County, NE

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 163 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1998-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 30 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 1998-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 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
30 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
647 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
161 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCYS 092303 RRA
TORCYS
NEC007-033-105-092320-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
503 PM MDT TUE JUN 9 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN BANNER COUNTY IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE
  NORTHEASTERN KIMBALL COUNTY IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE
  NORTHWESTERN CHEYENNE COUNTY IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE

* UNTIL 520 PM MDT

* AT 458 PM... AIR FORCE SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO 15 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF   KIMBALL... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER OPEN COUNTRY.

A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND! GO TO THE BASEMENT! IF A BASEMENT IS NOT
AVAILABLE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

JAD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 4:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSScotts Bluff35 min
Jun 9, 4:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSKimball49 min
Jun 9, 4:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBanner43 min
Jun 9, 4:42 PM MDTTornado WarningCYSKimball18 min
Jun 9, 5:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSCheyenne, Morrill47 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.