Alert archive / Nebraska / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2005, 3:09 PM MST for Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska. It was in force for 25 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
- Mar 30, 2005, 3:09 PM MST (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2005, 3:34 PM MST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Scotts Bluff County, NE
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 2365 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KCYS 302210 TORCYS NEC157-302230- /O.NEW.KCYS.TO.W.0001.050330T2209Z-050330T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 309 PM MST WED MAR 30 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF NEBRASKA THIS WARNING DOES NOT INCLUDE THE CITIES OF SCOTTSBLUFF OR GERING * UNTIL 330 PM MST * AT 306 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MITCHELL... OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF SCOTTSBLUFF...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MITCHELL BY 330 PM MST 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 4186 10398 4178 10382 4198 10359 4200 10380 $$ WEILAND
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS55 KCYS 302221 SVSCYS SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 319 PM MST WED MAR 30 2005 NEC157-302230- /O.CON.KCYS.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-050330T2230Z/ SCOTTS BLUFF NE- 319 PM MST WED MAR 30 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 330 PM MST FOR CENTRAL SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY... AT 312 PM MST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THE POSSIBILITY OF A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF SCOTTSBLUFF. AS OF 316 PM THE TORNADO HAD RETREATED BACK INTO THE BASE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RURAL NORTHERN SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY AT 325 PM MST THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4186 10398 4178 10382 4198 10359 4200 10380 $$ WEILAND
000 WWUS55 KCYS 302234 SVSCYS SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 333 PM MST WED MAR 30 2005 NEC157-302243- /O.EXP.KCYS.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-050330T2230Z/ SCOTTS BLUFF NE- 333 PM MST WED MAR 30 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY EXPIRES AT 330 PM MST... THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY HAS EXPIRED. SPOTTERS REPORTED THAT THE TORNADO DISSIPATED. LAT...LON 4186 10398 4178 10382 4198 10359 4200 10380 $$ STARK
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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.