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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Cheyenne, WY

July 8, 2004Dawes County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 2004, 3:59 PM MDT for Dawes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 31 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: Jul 8, 2004, 3:59 PM MDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2004, 4:30 PM MDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dawes County, NE

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 156 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 8, 2:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 251 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -375 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1171 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -38 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 
WFUS55 KCYS 082159
TORCYS
NEC045-082230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
358 PM MDT THU JUL 8 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL DAWES COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CHADRON

* UNTIL 430 PM MDT

* AT 350 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTH OF
  CHADRON AIRPORT...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHADRON...MOVING   
  EAST AT 45 MPH.  A BRIEF TORNADO WAS REPORTED AT 355 PM NEAR       
  TOADSTOOL PARK NORTH OF CRAWFORD.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  8 MILES SOUTH OF DEVILS BACKBONE BY 405 PM MDT

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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT
THURSDAY EVENING FOR THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA.

LAT...LON 4284 10311 4262 10327 4250 10278 4283 10279

$$

KMD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 2:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Sioux	50 min
Jul 8, 3:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Dawes	31 min
Jul 8, 5:13 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	CYS	Morrill	32 min
Jul 8, 5:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Morrill	33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.