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Special Weather Statement, NWS Cheyenne, WY

August 10, 2011Morrill County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this special weather statement at Aug 10, 2011, 2:45 AM MDT for Morrill County, Nebraska. It was in force for 60 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: Aug 10, 2011, 2:45 AM MDT (08:45 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2011, 3:45 AM MDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Cheyenne, WY

County Morrill County, NE

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 192 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: 5160 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 10, 1:20 AM MDT, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 1:20 AM MDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 10, 1:35 AM MDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 9, 9:57 PM MDT, 4 hours 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 10:01 PM MDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 10:08 PM MDT, 4 hours 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 9, 10:40 PM MDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 9, 10:52 PM MDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 10, 2:45 AM MDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 9, 6:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Goshen, Platte	49 min
Aug 9, 6:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Goshen, Laramie, Platte	66 min
Aug 9, 7:18 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	CYS	Goshen, Laramie	42 min
Aug 9, 7:54 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Goshen, Laramie	66 min
Aug 9, 8:57 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Goshen	48 min
Aug 9, 8:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Goshen	46 min
Aug 9, 9:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Laramie	64 min
Aug 9, 9:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Laramie	59 min
Aug 10, 1:25 AM MDT	Dense Fog Advisory	CYS	Albany, Laramie	5 hr
Aug 10, 2:16 PM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	CYS		13 hr
Aug 10, 3:19 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Laramie	56 min
Aug 10, 3:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Laramie	48 min
Aug 10, 3:38 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	CYS	Laramie	37 min
Aug 10, 4:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Laramie	57 min
Aug 10, 5:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Laramie	59 min
Aug 9, 8:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Banner, Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill	59 min
Aug 9, 9:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Box Butte	67 min
Aug 9, 9:42 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Cheyenne, Morrill	30 min
Aug 9, 10:40 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Kimball	50 min
Aug 10, 1:39 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Sioux	66 min
Aug 10, 2:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Kimball	57 min
Aug 10, 2:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Dawes, Sioux	67 min
Aug 10, 3:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Box Butte, Sioux	67 min
Aug 10, 4:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Banner	60 min
Aug 10, 4:11 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	CYS	Kimball	49 min
Aug 10, 4:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Box Butte, Morrill	66 min
Aug 10, 4:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Morrill	25 min
Aug 10, 4:52 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Banner	68 min
Aug 10, 5:23 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Morrill	53 min
Aug 10, 5:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Kimball	64 min

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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.