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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 132, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2008, 8:32 PM MDT for Dawes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 43 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
- Jul 23, 2008, 8:32 PM MDT (02:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2008, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Dawes County, NE
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 710 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 23, 1:15 PM MDT, 7 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 1:15 PM MDT, 7 hours 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 115 PM MDT WED JUL 23 2008 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THRU THU NIGHT...MOIST AIRMASS REMAINS IN PLACE OVER MUCH OF FAR SE WY INTO THE NEB PNHNDL. HEATING HAS BEEN SLOWED SOME IN THE PNHNDL DUE TO MRNG CLDS...BUT MOST AREAS GETTING GOOD SUNSHINE AT MIDDAY. LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE ZONE HAS SHIFTED E TO ALONG THE CWA BORDER FROM CDR-SNY. MOISTURE PLUME IN MID LEVELS HAS REMAINED OVER SE WY INTO THE PNHNDL...WITH FIRST BATCH OF STORMS GOING UP IN THIS BAND OFF THE NRN CO MTNS/FOOTHILLS AND MOVING GENERALLY ENE. CAP WILL BREAK IN THE PNHNDL LATER THIS AFTN AND EXPECT A BOX OVER MAINLY ERN PARTS OF THE AREA. WATER VAPOR SATELLITE PICTURES SHOW A WEAK FTR OVER UT AT MIDDAY MOVG NE. FTR APPEARS TO BE ASSOCD WITH A WEAK JET STREAK ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE PAC NW UPPER TROF WHICH IS COMING ASHORE. MODELS CONT TO SHOW STORMS BREAKING OUT OVER WRN/NRN SXNS OF THE AREA LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT DUE TO THIS FTR. CONSIDERED A FLASH FLOOD WATCH BUT LOOKS LIKE THE FLOW ALOFT ESPECIALLY OVER CNTRL/NRN SXNS HAS INCREASED QUITE A BIT SINCE YDA IN WAKE OF UPPER TROF THAT MOVED THRU OVERNIGHT MAINLY TO OUR N. STORMS WILL BE SLOWEST MOVING IN THE SOUTHEAST QTR OF THE AREA. AFTER TONIGHTS STORMS...EXPECT ANOTHER ROUND OF STORMS FOR THU...ALTHO MAY NOT BE QUITE AS WDSPRD AS THE LAST FEW NIGHTS. LOW LEVEL MSTR REMAINS IN PLACE AND IN FACT MAY BE SPRDG WWD ON ENE WINDS THU AFTN INTO THE LARAMIE RANGE FOOTHILLS. MODELS AGAIN CONSISTENT ON SHOWING SOME LINGERING SHWRS OR STORMS LATE INTO THE NIGHT ON THU MAINLY NERN PART OF AREA. WITH DECENT HEATING IN THE MORNING THRU EARLY AFTERNOON...TEMPS ON THU SHOULD BE SIMILAR TO TODAY...STILL ON THE WARM-HOT SIDE. .LONG TERM...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY....THE LONGWAVE RIDGE WILL BEGIN TO STRENGTHEN ON FRIDAY...BUT NOT ENOUGH TO QUASH THE INSTABILITY THAT WILL BE BROUGHT ON BY SURFACE HEATING...ALONG WITH BOTH UPSLOPE AND MONSOONAL MOISTURE. SCATTERED STORMS ARE A GOOD BET THAT AFTERNOON. SATURDAY SHOULD SEE MORE OF THE SAME ONLY WARMER. BY SUNDAY THE MID AND UPPER LEVELS WILL BE WARM ENOUGH TO CAP MOST ACTIVITY...SO HAVE LOWERED POPS TO ONLY SLIGHT CHANCE. MODELS REMAIN ALIGNED...EVEN ENSEMBLE MEMBERS ARE NARROWLY SPREAD...THROUGH THE LONG TERM. HIGH CONFIDENCE IN FURTHER BUILDING WESTERN CONUS RIDGE THAT WILL MAKE THE 90S DEGREE MARK LIKELY ALL NEXT WEEK IN CHEYENNE...WITH TRIPLE DIGITS LIKELY IN PORTIONS OF THE PANHANDLE. ISOLATED STORMS WILL DEPEND ON RIPPLES IN THE FLOW...SO HAVE INCLUDED SLIGHT CHANCE EACH DAY. && .AVIATION...BRIEF MVFR VSBYS IN STGR TSTMS MAINLY OVER THE PNHNDL THIS EVENG...WITH SOME PTCHY MVFR CIGS FORMING LATE TONIGHT AND LINGERING EARLY THU MRNG AGAIN MAINLY AFFECTING CDR...BFF AND SNY. && .CYS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WY...NONE. NE...NONE. && LONG TERM....SOWKO
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 9:40 AM MDT, 10 hours 52 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 940 AM MDT WED JUL 23 2008 NEZ001>003-019>021-054-055-WYZ059-060-067>070-241045- SIOUX-DAWES-BOX BUTTE-SCOTTS BLUFF-BANNER-MORRILL-KIMBALL- CHEYENNE-CONVERSE-NIOBRARA-PLATTE-GOSHEN-CHEYENNE FOOTHILLS- PINE BLUFFS- 940 AM MDT WED JUL 23 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP TO THE EAST OF THE LARAMIE RANGE THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH...HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. AREAS MOST LIKELY TO SEE THE STRONGER STORMS WOULD BE THE CENTRAL AND NORTHERN PARTS OF THE AREA...OR GENERALLY NORTH OF A LINE FROM BRIDGEPORT NEBRASKA TO CHUGWATER WYOMING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OVER THE AREA EACH DAY. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD AGAIN PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER ON THURSDAY. SEVERE STORMS ARE LESS LIKELY FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...BUT THOSE THAT FORM WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. && THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGIC...AND CLIMATE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/CHEYENNE WYZ061>066-241045- SOUTHWEST CARBON-NORTH CARBON-SNOWY RANGE-NORTH LARAMIE RANGE- LARAMIE VALLEY-LARAMIE RANGE- 940 AM MDT WED JUL 23 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER SOUTH CENTRAL WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE...BUT MODERATE RAINFALL...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE OVER THE AREA EACH DAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. && THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGIC...AND CLIMATE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/CHEYENNE
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Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 6:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Niobrara | 38 min |
| Jul 23, 7:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Niobrara | 42 min |
| Jul 23, 6:18 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | CYS | Sioux | 3 hr |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
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.