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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2000, 3:10 PM MDT for Kimball County, Nebraska. It was in force for 35 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 2000, 3:10 PM MDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2000, 3:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Kimball County, NE
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 3:26 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Bushnell, NE | |
| May 7, 3:30 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Kimball, NE | Large hail damaged much of Kimball, NE, with 40 to 50 percent of the city reporting excessive damage. |
| May 7, 3:35 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Kimball, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 2:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3658 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
467 WUUS55 KCYS 072111 SVRCYS NEC105-072145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 310 PM MDT SUN MAY 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL KIMBALL COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF KIMBALL * UNTIL 345 PM MDT * AT 305 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BUSHNELL...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA AND EAST CENTRAL WYOMING. LAT...LON 4130 10402 4112 10401 4109 10351 4133 10352 DAUGHERTY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 8:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 35 min |
| May 6, 9:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 34 min |
| May 6, 9:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill, Scotts Bluff | 48 min |
| May 6, 9:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sioux | 30 min |
| May 6, 10:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte | 27 min |
| May 6, 10:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte | 46 min |
| May 6, 11:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 34 min |
| May 6, 11:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte | 48 min |
| May 7, 12:35 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 15 min |
| May 7, 3:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Kimball | 28 min |
| May 7, 3:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Sioux | 50 min |
| May 7, 3:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Kimball | 31 min |
| May 7, 4:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 47 min |
| May 7, 4:23 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Scotts Bluff | 37 min |
| May 7, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Cheyenne | 50 min |
| May 7, 4:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte | 25 min |
| May 7, 5:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Morrill | 44 min |
| May 7, 5:10 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Box Butte | 35 min |
| May 7, 5:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Cheyenne | 44 min |
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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.