Alert archive / Nebraska / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 13, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this wind advisory at Apr 30, 2008, 7:08 PM MDT for 6 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 2008, 7:08 PM MDT (01:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2008, 10:35 PM MDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
Counties Banner County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:12 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 4708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS75 KCYS 010108 NPWCYS URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 708 PM MDT WED APR 30 2008 ...STRONG NORTH WINDS ACCOMPANYING COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE AS STRONG SPRING STORM MOVES INTO THE AREA... .A STRONG SPRING STORM IS BEGINNING TO AFFECT THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE TONIGHT. THE FIRST COMPONENT OF THIS STORM SYSTEM IS THE INITIAL PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT...AND THIS IS CREATING STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING. STRONG WINDS WILL REDEVELOP WITH WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AFTER WEAKENING SLIGHTLY OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. NEZ003-019>021-054-055-010600- /O.NEW.KCYS.WI.Y.0013.080501T0108Z-080501T0600Z/ BOX BUTTE-SCOTTS BLUFF-BANNER-MORRILL-KIMBALL-CHEYENNE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALLIANCE...SCOTTSBLUFF...GERING... HARRISBURG...BRIDGEPORT...BAYARD...KIMBALL...SIDNEY 708 PM MDT WED APR 30 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT TONIGHT. A BRIEF PERIOD OF NORTH WINDS RANGING FROM 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 40 MPH WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE ALONG AND BEHIND THE COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE THROUGH AROUND MIDNIGHT. WIND SPEEDS WILL THEN DECREASE SLIGHTLY AND SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST OVERNIGHT. EXPECT WIDESPREAD COLD RAIN TO ALSO DEVELOP OVERNIGHT...MIXING WITH AND THEN CHANGING OVER TO SNOW BY AROUND SUNRISE. NORTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE AGAIN DURING THE DAY THURSDAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY. THIS IS EXPECTED TO CREATE AREAS WITH RESTRICTED VISIBILITY DUE TO BLOWING SNOW. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH ARE EXPECTED TO LAST LONGER THAN ONE HOUR...OR ANY GUSTS TO 45 MPH OR GREATER ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ CARPENTER
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS75 KCYS 010435 NPWCYS URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 1035 PM MDT WED APR 30 2008 NEZ003-019>021-054-055-010545- /O.CAN.KCYS.WI.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-080501T0600Z/ BOX BUTTE-SCOTTS BLUFF-BANNER-MORRILL-KIMBALL-CHEYENNE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALLIANCE...SCOTTSBLUFF...GERING... HARRISBURG...BRIDGEPORT...BAYARD...KIMBALL...SIDNEY 1035 PM MDT WED APR 30 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. STRONG NORTH WINDS HAVE DECREASED TO BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE THIS EVENING...AND THEREFORE THE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. NORTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP DURING THE DAY THURSDAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY. THIS IS EXPECTED TO CREATE AREAS WITH RESTRICTED VISIBILITY DUE TO BLOWING SNOW. $$ CARPENTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 5:26 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | CYS | Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Dawes, Kimball, Morrill and 1 more | 14 hr |
| May 1, 5:41 AM MDT | Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory | CYS | Box Butte, Dawes | 37 hr |
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.