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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at May 7, 2000, 3:32 PM MDT for Kimball County, Nebraska. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report 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, 3:32 PM MDT (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2000, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 28 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), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 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, 3:35 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 155 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.
688 WFUS55 KCYS 072133 TORCYS NEC105-072200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 332 PM MDT SUN MAY 7 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KIMBALL COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA * UNTIL 400 PM MDT * AT 329 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF KIMBALL...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE DIX THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM MDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA AND EAST CENTRAL WYOMING. LAT...LON 4129 10387 4111 10387 4109 10344 4132 10344 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, 3:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Kimball | 35 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 |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.