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Special Weather Statement, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2012, 5:49 PM MDT for Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska. It was in force for 26 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 6, 2012, 5:49 PM MDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2012, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
County Scotts Bluff County, NE
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3555 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
967
WWUS85 KCYS 062349
SPSCYS
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
549 PM MDT MON AUG 6 2012
NEZ019>021-070015-
BANNER NE-MORRILL NE-SCOTTS BLUFF NE-
549 PM MDT MON AUG 6 2012
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN SCOTTS BLUFF...
WESTERN MORRILL AND NORTHEASTERN BANNER COUNTIES UNTIL 615 PM MDT...
AT 545 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR MINATARE...OR 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
SCOTTSBLUFF...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
HAIL UP TO ONE-HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH ARE
EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
CHIMNEY ROCK STATE PARK...
SOUTH BAYARD JUNCTION...
BAYARD...
MCGREW...
&&
LAT...LON 4181 10364 4187 10352 4178 10325 4158 10339
4175 10365
TIME...MOT...LOC 2349Z 299DEG 18KT 4176 10352
$$
LIEBLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 11:41 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | CYS | 3 hr | |
| Aug 6, 2:46 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | CYS | 16 hr | |
| Aug 6, 5:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Scotts Bluff | 16 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.