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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Cheyenne, WY

June 5, 2006Morrill County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2006, 2:12 AM MDT for Morrill County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 2006, 2:12 AM MDT (08:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2006, 2:38 AM MDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Morrill County, NE

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:14 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

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 211 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2006-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 676 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2006-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -30 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
676 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2715 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 4, 2:23 PM MDT, 11 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 2:23 PM MDT, 11 hours 49 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
223 PM MDT SUN JUN 4 2006

.SHORT TERM...CONVECTION SLOWLY FORMING AT 19Z OVER AND NEAR THE
LARAMIE RANGE AND THE SNOWY RANGE.  CAP WAS JUST RECENTLY BROKEN OVER
SOUTHEAST WYOMING.  SURFACE FORCING...STEEPENING LAPSE RATES AND A
WEAK SHORTWAVE TROUGH MOVING OVER THE CWA SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO KEEP
THE ACTIVITY DEVELOPING AND MOVING EAST.  WITH SURFACE DEW POINTS IN
THE 40S THERE WILL ALSO BE ENOUGH LOW LEVEL MOISTURE FOR SOME OF THE
STORMS TO BECOME STRONG WITH SMALL HAIL AND OUTFLOW WIND GUSTS.  BY
06Z MOST OF THE ACTIVITY SHOULD HAVE ENDED OR MOVED OUT OF THE CWA
AS THE SHORTWAVE TROUGH AT 250MB MOVES EAST OF THE CWA.  THE CURRENT
SURFACE BOUNDARY ALONG THE LARAMIE RANGE WILL ALSO MOVE EAST TONIGHT
AS A SURFACE TROUGH.  WEST WINDS BEHIND THAT FEATURE WILL HELP KEEP
TEMPERATURES ON THE WARM SIDE TONIGHT.  HEIGHTS ALOFT RISE OVER THE
CWA ON MONDAY.  A SHORTWAVE TROUGH WILL MOVE OVER THE RIDGE TONIGHT
WELL TO THE NORTH OF THE CWA.  THAT FEATURE WILL PUSH AN ASSOCIATED
COLD FRONT AT LEAST INTO THE NORTH PART OF THE CWA MONDAY AFTERNOON.
ATMOSPHERE SHOULD BE MORE STABLE FOR MONDAY WITRH THE WARMER READINGS
ALOFT AND LOWER SURFACE DEW POINTS.  MOST OF THE STORMS FOR MONDAY
AFTERNOON SHOULD BE OVER AND NEAR THE SNOWY AND LARAMIE RANGES IN
THE AREA WITH DEEPER MOISTURE AND STEEPER LAPSE RATES.  TEMPERATURES
WILL ALSO BE WARMER OVER THE CWA ON MONDAY.

.LONG TERM...MON NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY. A BROAD UPPER RIDGE WILL
REMAIN OVER THE AREA TUE AND WED. BY WED NIGHT THE RIDGE AXIS IS FAR
ENOUGH EAST THAT THE FLOW ALOFT OVER THE FORECAST AREA WILL BECOME
SOUTHWESTERLY. UPPER FLOW WILL CONTINUE FROM THE SOUTHWEST THU AND
FRI BEFORE BECOMING MORE ZONAL SATURDAY AND SUN AS THE FLOW LOSES
AMPLIFICATION AND BECOMES BASICALLY ZONAL ACROSS MUCH OF THE UNITED
STATES. NO SIGNIFICANT SURFACE FRONTS ARE PROGGED TO IMPACT THE AREA
SO TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN ABOVE AVERAGE THROUGH NEXT WEEKEND...
ALTHOUGH TEMPS SHOULD MODERATE SOMEWHAT FROM FRI ONWARD AS THE UPPER
RIDGE FLATTENS OUT AND HEIGHTS CORRESPONDINGLY LOWER. WILL INCLUDE A
SMALL CHANCE OF PRIMARILY AFTERNOON/EVENING THUNDERSTORMS EVERY DAY
BUT SUN...AS CONVECTIVE PROCESSES SHOULD DOMINATE GIVEN THE LACK OF
SIGNIFICANT SURFACE OR UPPER FEATURES.

&&

.CYS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
WY...NONE.
NE...NONE.

&&

WEILAND/JR
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 4, 10:21 AM MDT, 15 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
1021 AM MDT SUN JUN 4 2006

NEZ001>003-019>021-054-055-051630-
SIOUX-DAWES-BOX BUTTE-SCOTTS BLUFF-BANNER-MORRILL-KIMBALL-
CHEYENNE-
1021 AM MDT SUN JUN 4 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN NEBRASKA
PANHANDLE.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A SCATTERED COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE
WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE FROM THE WEST BY THE LATE AFTERNOON
OR EARLY EVENING.  THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE FAIRLY MOIST AND
UNSTABLE AND WITH FAVORABLE WIND SHEAR...HAIL AND GUSTY
OUTFLOW WINDS SHOULD RESULT. THE ACTIVITY WILL MOVE TO THE
EAST OR SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS.
THE HAIL SIZE COULD BE UP TO AN INCH...ESPECIALLY OVER THE
SOUTHERN PANHANDLE THIS EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS
TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

SEVERE DROUGHT WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PANHANDLE OF
NEBRASKA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED IN THE WESTERN NEBRASKA
PANHANDLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.

WYZ059-060-063>070-051630-
CONVERSE-NIOBRARA-SNOWY RANGE-NORTH LARAMIE RANGE-LARAMIE VALLEY-
LARAMIE RANGE-PLATTE-GOSHEN-CHEYENNE FOOTHILLS-PINE BLUFFS-
1021 AM MDT SUN JUN 4 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST WYOMING.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A SCATTERED COVERAGE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER AND
NEAR THE SNOWY AND LARAMIE RANGES BY MID AFTERNOON. THE
ATMOSPHERE WILL BE FAIRLY MOIST AND UNSTABLE WITH THE TRIGGERS
BEING DAYTIME HEATING...SURFACE CONVERGENCE AND A WEAK UPPER
LEVEL DISTURBANCE MOVING OVER THE REGION. WITH FAVORABLE WIND
SHEAR...HAIL AND GUSTY OUTFLOW WINDS SHOULD RESULT. THE ACTIVITY
WILL MOVE TO THE EAST OR SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH THROUGH THE EARLY
EVENING HOURS. THE HAIL SIZE COULD BE UP TO AN INCH...ESPECIALLY
OVER LARAMIE COUNTY AND THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF PLATTE AND
GOSHEN COUNTIES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS
TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED OVER SOUTHEAST WYOMING THIS
AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING.

WYZ061-062-051630-
SOUTHWEST CARBON-NORTH CARBON-
1021 AM MDT SUN JUN 4 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST WYOMING.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OVER THE LOWER
ELEVATIONS OF CARBON COUNTY.  THE MAIN THREAT FROM THE ACTIVITY
WILL BE WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.

THERE WILL BE HIGH WILDFIRE DANGER DURING THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

WEILAND

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 4, 10:27 PM MDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
1027 PM MDT SUN JUN 04 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0950 PM     HAIL             3 N ALBIN               41.46N 104.10W
06/04/2006  E0.50 INCH       LARAMIE            WY   TRAINED SPOTTER

1002 PM     HAIL             6 NE ALBIN              41.48N 104.02W
06/04/2006  E0.25 INCH       BANNER             NE   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

JLH
Local storm report, Jun 5, 1:49 AM MDT, 23 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 12:37 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSLaramie53 min
Jun 5, 12:57 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBanner37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.