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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Cheyenne, WY

May 17, 2007Platte County, Wyoming

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at May 17, 2007, 3:32 PM MDT for Platte County, Wyoming. It was in force for 28 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
May 17, 2007, 3:32 PM MDT (21:32 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 2007, 4:00 PM MDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Platte County, WY

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 261 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 2007-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 2007-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 254 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1061 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
254 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
319 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS55 KCYS 172132
TORCYS
WYC031-172200-
/O.NEW.KCYS.TO.W.0003.070517T2132Z-070517T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
332 PM MDT THU MAY 17 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL PLATTE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING...

* UNTIL 400 PM MDT

* AT 329 PM MDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO 17 MILES
  WEST OF GUERNSEY...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTH OF WHEATLAND...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

MOVE INTO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A 
STURDY BUILDING. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
CHEYENNE AT 1-800-269-6220.

LAT...LON 4238 10510 4210 10517 4210 10466 4240 10468

$$

JR
2 follow-up statements
000 
WWUS55 KCYS 172145
SVSCYS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
344 PM MDT THU MAY 17 2007

WYC031-172200-
/O.CON.KCYS.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070517T2200Z/
PLATTE WY-
344 PM MDT THU MAY 17 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM MDT FOR CENTRAL
PLATTE COUNTY...

AT 341 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW A STORM WITH A 
HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 15 
MILES NORTH OF WHEATLAND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  I-25 MM 87 BY 400 PM MDT...

MOVE INTO A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY
BUILDING. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
CHEYENNE AT 1-800-269-6220.

LAT...LON 4238 10510 4210 10517 4210 10466 4240 10468

$$

JR
000 
WWUS55 KCYS 172200
SVSCYS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
400 PM MDT THU MAY 17 2007

WYC031-172210-
/O.EXP.KCYS.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070517T2200Z/
PLATTE WY-
400 PM MDT THU MAY 17 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL PLATTE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 400 PM
MDT...

THE STORM HAS DECREASED IN INTENSITY AND IS NO LONGER SEVERE. 
THEREFORE...THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
CHEYENNE AT 1-800-269-6220.

LAT...LON 4238 10510 4210 10517 4210 10466 4240 10468

$$

JR

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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.