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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Cheyenne, WY

June 4, 2004Kimball County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2004, 1:41 PM MDT for Kimball County, Nebraska. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 2004, 1:41 PM MDT (19:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2004, 2:15 PM MDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kimball County, NE

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:45 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 148 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2903 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 107 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.

533 
WFUS55 KCYS 041941
TORCYS
NEC105-042015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
141 PM MDT FRI JUN 4 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN KIMBALL COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA

* UNTIL 215 PM MDT

* AT 140 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR I-80 MM 
  5...OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF KIMBALL...MOVING EAST AT 
  20 MPH.  SPOTTERS ALSO CONFIRMED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND.
 
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.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 4119 10399 4102 10400 4102 10354 4119 10353

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 2:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Kimball	61 min
Jun 4, 2:32 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Banner	58 min
Jun 4, 4:06 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Box Butte	54 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.