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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Cheyenne, WY

May 22, 2008Albany County, Carbon County, Wyoming

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2008, 2:15 PM MDT for Albany County, Carbon County, Wyoming. It was in force for 30 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 22, 2008, 2:15 PM MDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2008, 2:45 PM MDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Albany County, WY, Carbon County, WY

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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

Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 233 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 301 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS55 KCYS 222015
TORCYS
WYC001-007-222045-
/O.NEW.KCYS.TO.W.0009.080522T2015Z-080522T2045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
215 PM MDT THU MAY 22 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL CARBON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WYOMING...
  CENTRAL ALBANY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING...

* UNTIL 245 PM MDT

* AT 212 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES EAST OF
  ROCK RIVER...OR 31 MILES NORTHWEST OF LARAMIE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT
  40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  SODA LAKE BY 230 PM...

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 4205 10627 4215 10600 4169 10570 4161 10592
TIME...MOT...LOC 2015Z 152DEG 42KT 4174 10587

$$

KMD

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS55 KCYS 222036
SVSCYS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
236 PM MDT THU MAY 22 2008

WYC001-007-222045-
/O.CON.KCYS.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-080522T2045Z/
ALBANY WY-CARBON WY-
236 PM MDT THU MAY 22 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 PM MDT FOR EAST
CENTRAL CARBON AND CENTRAL ALBANY COUNTIES...

AT 234 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS
LOCATED NEAR SODA LAKE...OR 48 MILES NORTHWEST OF LARAMIE...MOVING
NORTHWEST AT 40 MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM THURSDAY EVENING FOR
CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM
THURSDAY EVENING FOR CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING.

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

LAT...LON 4205 10627 4215 10600 4169 10570 4161 10592
TIME...MOT...LOC 2036Z 152DEG 42KT 4196 10603

$$
KMD

000 
WWUS55 KCYS 222046
SVSCYS

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
245 PM MDT THU MAY 22 2008

WYC001-007-222055-
/O.EXP.KCYS.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-080522T2045Z/
ALBANY WY-CARBON WY-
245 PM MDT THU MAY 22 2008

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL CARBON AND CENTRAL ALBANY
COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL CARBON 
AND CENTRAL ALBANY COUNTY HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER POSES A SEVERE 
WEATHER THREAT.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM THURSDAY EVENING FOR
CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM
THURSDAY EVENING FOR CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING.

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

LAT...LON 4205 10627 4215 10600 4169 10570 4161 10592
TIME...MOT...LOC 2045Z 152DEG 42KT 4205 10610

$$
KMD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 21, 6:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Albany, Converse, Platte	50 min
May 21, 6:20 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CYS	Albany, Converse	96 min
May 21, 7:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Platte	43 min
May 21, 8:28 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CYS	Platte	90 min
May 22, 7:58 AM MDT	Dense Fog Advisory	CYS		2 hr
May 22, 9:15 AM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CYS	Platte	4 hr
May 22, 10:18 AM MDT	Dense Fog Advisory	CYS		102 min
May 22, 12:31 PM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	CYS	Weston	11 hr
May 22, 12:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Albany, Laramie	47 min
May 22, 1:14 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	CYS	Albany	31 min
May 22, 1:44 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	CYS	Albany	31 min
May 22, 2:07 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	CYS	Albany	23 min
May 22, 2:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Goshen, Laramie	31 min
May 22, 2:26 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	CYS	Albany	4 hr
May 22, 2:29 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	CYS	Albany	31 min
May 22, 3:11 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	CYS	Albany, Laramie	34 min
May 22, 3:27 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	CYS	Laramie	33 min
May 22, 4:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Laramie	45 min
May 22, 5:00 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CYS	Laramie	2 hr
May 22, 5:15 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	CYS	Platte	6 hr
May 22, 5:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Albany, Converse, Platte	44 min
May 22, 5:32 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	CYS	Platte	66 min

Nearby

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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.