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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Cheyenne, WY

July 13, 2009Cheyenne County, Morrill County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2009, 6:06 PM MDT for Cheyenne County, Morrill County, Nebraska. It was in force for 54 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 13, 2009, 6:06 PM MDT (00:06 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 2009, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Cheyenne County, NE, Morrill County, NE

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 13, 1:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 204 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2009-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2857 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, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2009-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2857 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1339 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
207 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.2
Supercell composite
13.2

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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 Jul 13, 2:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 2:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
200 PM MDT MON JUL 13 2009

.SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...UPPER LOW NOW MOVING EAST
ACROSS IDAHO WILL CONTINUE TO TRANSLATE EASTWARD ACROSS THE NORTHERN
ROCKYS TONIGHT AND INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS TUESDAY MORNING.  SFC
COLD FRONT AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM EXPECTED TO REACH CENTRAL WY BY THIS
EVENING AND CROSS THE CWA BY LATE TONIGHT.  EXPECT ONE MORE ROUND OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MAINLY THE EASTERN CWA LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE FRONT AND DYNAMICS
PASSING OVER THE AREA WITH BEST CHANCE FOR ANY SEVERE STORMS OVER
THE PANHANDLE.  ACTIVITY SHOULD CLEAR THE CWA FROM WEST TO EAST
TONIGHT WITH DRY AND QUITE BREEZY WEATHER EXPECTED FOR TUESDAY IN
DOWNSLOPING FLOW WITH MAX TEMPERATURES ABOUT 10 DEGREES COOLER.
MAINLY DRY AND WARM WEDNESDAY UNDER WNW FLOW ALOFT.  AN ISOLATED
STORM OR TWO NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION OVER THE SRN MTNS CLOSE TO THE
COLORADO BORDER WEDS AFTERNOON IF SUFFICIENT MOISTURE CREEPS BACK UP
THE FRONT RANGE INTO THE AREA.

.LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...
NW FLOW WILL DEVELOP ALOFT OVER THE CWA WED NIGHT AND THURSDAY AS AN
UPPER RIDGE BEGINS TO BUILD OVER THE WESTERN U.S.  A DISTURBANCE IN
THE NW FLOW ALOFT WILL KICK OFF SOME LATE DAY THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY
IN THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE.  THE UPPER RIDGE WILL CONTINUE TO AMPLIFY
FRI AND SAT AND THE AXIS WILL MOVE SLOWLY EAST.  DRY AND WARM
CONDITIONS WILL OCCUR OVER THE FORECAST AREA AT THIS TIME.  A WEAK
DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NEB PANHANDLE ON SUN...WHICH WILL
RESULT IN ANOTHER ROUND OF LATE DAY THUNDERSTORMS.  FINALLY...DRY
CONDITIONS WILL RETURN TO THE AREA ON MON AS A DISTURBANCE MOVING
ACROSS MT FLATTENS THE UPPER RIDGE.  HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL A FEW
DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL EACH DAY.

&&

.AVIATION...MAINLY VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED THROUGH TUESDAY OUTSIDE
OF THUNDERSTORMS INTO THIS EVENING WHERE LOCAL AND BRIEF MVFR
CONDITIONS POSSIBLE MAINLY FOR LOWER VISIBILITIES.  GUSTY AND
ERRATIC WINDS ALSO POSSIBLE VCTY ANY THUNDERSTORMS.

&&

.FIRE WEATHER...PASSAGE OF COLD FRONT TONIGHT WILL BRING GUSTY WEST
OR NORTHWEST WINDS TO MUCH OF THE AREA BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON WITH
WINDS FALLING OFF TUESDAY EVENING. WINDS COMBINED WITH SOMEWHAT LOW
RELATIVE HUMIDITIES OVER THE LOWER ELEVATIONS OF MAINLY CARBON AND
ALBANY COUNTIES WILL ACCELERATE DRYING BUT FUELS STILL SUFFICIENTLY
MOIST THUS CONCERNS MINIMAL.

&&

.CYS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
WY...NONE.
NE...NONE.

&&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 2:05 PM MDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
205 PM MDT MON JUL 13 2009

NEZ001>003-019>021-054-055-WYZ068>070-141145-
SIOUX-DAWES-BOX BUTTE-SCOTTS BLUFF-BANNER-MORRILL-KIMBALL-
CHEYENNE-GOSHEN-CHEYENNE FOOTHILLS-PINE BLUFFS-
205 PM MDT MON JUL 13 2009

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT...

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND PERSIST INTO
THIS EVENING. THE AIR WILL BE MOIST AND UNSTABLE ENOUGH TO SUPPORT A
FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY
RAIN...MAINLY OVER EXTREME EASTERN WYOMING INTO THE NEBRASKA
PANHANDLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.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

WYZ059>067-141145-
CONVERSE-NIOBRARA-SOUTHWEST CARBON-NORTH CARBON-SNOWY RANGE-
NORTH LARAMIE RANGE-LARAMIE VALLEY-LARAMIE RANGE-PLATTE-
205 PM MDT MON JUL 13 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST WYOMING.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON.
A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG JUST EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS AND
PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS AS WELL AS SMALL HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 13, 4:14 PM MDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
414 PM MDT MON JUL 13 2009

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0411 PM     HAIL             6 N LA GRANGE           41.73N 104.16W
07/13/2009  M0.50 INCH       GOSHEN             WY   TRAINED SPOTTER

0342 PM     HAIL             20 W ALBIN              41.42N 104.49W
07/13/2009  M0.25 INCH       LARAMIE            WY   TRAINED SPOTTER

            ALSO HEAVY RAINFALL

&&

MWEILAND
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 4:39 PM MDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
439 PM MDT MON JUL 13 2009

NEZ020-054-055-WYZ070-132345-
BANNER-CHEYENNE-KIMBALL-PINE BLUFFS-
439 PM MDT MON JUL 13 2009

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EASTERN LARAMIE...NORTHERN
KIMBALL...NORTHWESTERN CHEYENNE AND SOUTHEASTERN BANNER COUNTIES
UNTIL 545 PM MDT...

AT 439 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ALBIN...OR 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF KIMBALL...
MOVING EAST AT 24 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS TO 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS
STORM.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM MDT.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  8 MILES SOUTH OF HARRISBURG BY 520 PM MDT.
  BIGHORN MOUNTAIN BY 545 PM MDT.

RUBIN
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 6:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSMorrill39 min
Jul 13, 6:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSDawes, Sioux41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2009Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2009

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.