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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 156, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2015, 7:17 PM MDT for Converse County, Niobrara County, Wyoming. It was in force for 58 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 15, 2015, 7:17 PM MDT (01:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2015, 8:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Converse County, WY, Niobrara County, WY
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 208 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1871 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 15, 6:08 PM MDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 6:08 PM MDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 608 PM MDT WED JUL 15 2015 .SHORT TERM...(THIS EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT) ISSUED AT 240 PM MDT WED JUL 15 2015 ISOLATED SHOWERS AND A FEW STORMS DEVELOPING OVER MUCH OF THE CWA NOW...MOVING GENERALLY IN AN EASTWARD DIRECTION. INSTABILITIES A RE RATHER LOW SO ACTIVITY SHOULD BE RATHER PULSE-NATURED...DYING OUT THIS EVENING. LITTLE CHANGE EXPECTED IN THE OVERALL WEATHER THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY WITH A GENERALLY WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT BEHIND A WEAK IMPULSE THAT WILL PASS ACROSS OVERNIGHT. A BIT LESS CONVECTION EXPECTED THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH SOME WARMING OF MID LEVEL TEMPS IN RESPONSE TO A WEAK SHORT RIDGE PASSING ACROSS THE REGION. UPPER FLOW WILL BACK A LITTLE MORE WSW ON FRIDAY AHEAD OF A MORE SIGNIFICANT UPPER TROF THAT WILL DROP OVER THE PACIFIC NW. SFC COOL FRONT SHOULD SAG INTO CENTRAL WYOMING BY LATE IN THE DAY AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM AND SHOULD HELP TO FOCUS CONVECTION A BIT MORE ACROSS NW PARTS OF THE CWA FRIDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. INSTABILITIES WILL REMAIN ON THE LOW SIDE THROUGH THE PERIOD...WITH CAPES GENERALLY AROUND 500 J/KG OVER THE PLAINS. .LONG TERM...(SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY) ISSUED AT 240 PM MDT WED JUL 15 2015 12Z GFS AND ECMWF STILL PUSH A DEEP UPPER LEVEL TROUGH SOUTHWARD INTO IDAHO AND WESTERN WYOMING BY SATURDAY...BUT THEN THE ECMWF HAS TRENDED LESS DEEP WITH THE TROUGH BY LATE SATURDAY TAKING MOST OF THE SHORTWAVE ENERGY TO OUR NORTH WHEREAS THE GFS STILL PUSHES THE TROUGH ACROSS WYOMING THROUGH SUNDAY. BOTH MODELS BRING A SURFACE COLD FRONT SOUTH ACROSS OUR AREA SATURDAY NIGHT AND KEEP MAX TEMPERATURES MOSTLY IN THE 70S FOR SUNDAY. WILL CARRY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN THE MOUNTAINS ON SATURDAY WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OUT ON THE PLAINS...THEN WITH DEEP LAYERED DRYING WE TAPER POPS DOWN THROUGH TUESDAY THEN WE SEE AN UPTICK IN POPS BY MIDWEEK AS AN ACTIVE SOUTHWESTERLY MID/UPPER FLOW TAPS MORE MONSOONAL MOISTURE. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 00Z TAFS THROUGH 00Z THURSDAY EVENING) ISSUED AT 604 PM MDT WED JUL 15 2015 THUNDERSTORMS WILL GRADUALLY DECREASE IN INTENSITY WITH SUNSET. STORMS WILL END AFTERWARDS WITH LACK OF DAYTIME HEATING. VFR CONDITIONS AFTERWARDS. && .FIRE WEATHER... ISSUED AT 240 PM MDT WED JUL 15 2015 CONCERNS TO REMAIN LOW FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK WITH NON-CRITICAL FUELS AND WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPECTED. THE BEST CHANCES FOR RAIN WILL BE THIS EVENING AND AGAIN THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. DRIER CONDITIONS EXPECTED THIS WEEKEND WITH A LITTLE COOLER TEMPERATURES. && .CYS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WY...NONE. NE...NONE. && SHORT TERM...RE LONG TERM...JG AVIATION...GCC FIRE WEATHER...RE
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 15, 10:23 AM MDT, 8 hours 54 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 1023 AM MDT WED JUL 15 2015 WYZ101>119-161200- CONVERSE COUNTY LOWER ELEVATIONS-NIOBRARA COUNTY- NORTH LARAMIE RANGE-FERRIS/SEMINOE/SHIRLEY MOUNTAINS- SHIRLEY BASIN-CENTRAL LARAMIE RANGE AND SOUTHWEST PLATTE COUNTY- EAST PLATTE COUNTY-GOSHEN COUNTY-CENTRAL CARBON COUNTY- NORTH SNOWY RANGE FOOTHILLS-SOUTHWEST CARBON COUNTY- SIERRA MADRE RANGE-UPPER NORTH PLATTE RIVER BASIN-SNOWY RANGE- LARAMIE VALLEY-SOUTH LARAMIE RANGE-SOUTH LARAMIE RANGE FOOTHILLS- CENTRAL LARAMIE COUNTY-EAST LARAMIE COUNTY- 1023 AM MDT WED JUL 15 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL WYOMING...SOUTH CENTRAL WYOMING AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP EARLY THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING AND PERSIST INTO THE EARLY EVENING. NO SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED THROUGH TONIGHT. NEZ002-003-019>021-054-055-095-096-161200- DAWES-BOX BUTTE-SCOTTS BLUFF-BANNER-MORRILL-KIMBALL-CHEYENNE- NORTH SIOUX-SOUTH SIOUX- 1023 AM MDT WED JUL 15 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND PERSIST THROUGH THE EVENING. NO SEVERE STORMS ARE EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED THROUGH TONIGHT.
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Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 6:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Niobrara | 41 min |
| Jul 15, 6:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Niobrara | 28 min |
| Jul 15, 6:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Converse | 63 min |
| Jul 15, 6:54 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Niobrara | 51 min |
| Jul 15, 7:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Platte | 50 min |
| Jul 15, 7:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Laramie | 43 min |
| Jul 15, 8:05 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Goshen | 40 min |
| Jul 15, 8:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Niobrara | 47 min |
| Jul 15, 8:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Goshen | 52 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.