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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Cheyenne, WY

May 13, 2007Dawes County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2007, 4:01 PM MDT for Dawes 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 2007, 4:01 PM MDT (22:01 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 2007, 4:35 PM MDT
In force
34 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), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 152 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2007-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 29 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2007-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
29 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-383 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3752 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 May 13, 2:52 PM MDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 13, 2:52 PM MDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 10:10 AM MDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
1010 AM MDT SUN MAY 13 2007

NEZ001>003-019>021-054-055-WYZ059>070-141130-
SIOUX-DAWES-BOX BUTTE-SCOTTS BLUFF-BANNER-MORRILL-KIMBALL-
CHEYENNE-CONVERSE-NIOBRARA-SOUTHWEST CARBON-NORTH CARBON-
SNOWY RANGE-NORTH LARAMIE RANGE-LARAMIE VALLEY-LARAMIE RANGE-
PLATTE-GOSHEN-CHEYENNE FOOTHILLS-PINE BLUFFS-
1010 AM MDT SUN MAY 13 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN NEBRASKA
PANHANDLE AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING OVER MUCH OF THE AREA.  A FEW STORMS...ESPECAILLY ALONG AND
EAST OF THE LARAMIE RANGE...COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MPH AND
DIME SIZED HAIL.  IT IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION FOR A COUPLE STORMS
TO BECOME MARGINALLY SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THERE WILL BE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ON MONDAY OVER MUCH OF THE
REGION.  A FEW LATE DAY STORMS WILL BE SPRINKLED ABOUT THE AREA
WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED...BUT SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED
REPORT HAIL SIZE OR WIND SPEEDS ASSOCIATED WITH ANY STORM THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

&&

THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGIC...AND
CLIMATE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT...
HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/CHEYENNE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 1:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSBanner46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.