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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Cheyenne, WY

June 5, 1999Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1999, 3:50 PM MDT for Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska. It was in force for 30 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 5, 1999, 3:50 PM MDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1999, 4:20 PM MDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area
Whole counties

County Scotts Bluff County, NE

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 5, 3:55 PM MDTHail 1.5Mc Grew, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 5, 3:00 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 256 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 12:00Z on 1999-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1999-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -42 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1172 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 4:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBox Butte, Morrill42 min
Jun 5, 4:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSDawes41 min
Jun 5, 4:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBox Butte22 min
Jun 5, 5:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSDawes44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.