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Special Weather Statement, NWS Cheyenne, WY

August 5, 2015Dawes County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2015, 5:06 PM MDT for Dawes County, Nebraska. It was in force for 39 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 5, 2015, 5:06 PM MDT (23:06 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 2015, 5:45 PM MDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY

County Dawes County, NE

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 318 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2015-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2015-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2714 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
35 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 5, 2:58 PM MDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 2:58 PM MDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 10:19 AM MDT, 6 hours 47 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
1019 AM MDT WED AUG 5 2015

WYZ101>119-061630-
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-
1019 AM MDT WED AUG 5 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL
WYOMING...SOUTH CENTRAL WYOMING AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP BY MIDDAY WEST OF THE LARAMIE
RANGE...THEN INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY AS THEY MOVE EAST
OF THE LARAMIE RANGE THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS CONVERSE AND NIOBRARA COUNTIES
LATE THIS AFTERNOON WHERE THERE WILL BE FAVORABLE WIND SHEAR AND
INSTABILITY. THE MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE STRONG WINDS AND LARGE
HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

GUSTY WEST WINDS AT 20 TO 30 MPH AND RELATIVE HUMIDITIES DROPPING
TO 15 TO 20 PERCENT WILL CREATE NEAR CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
OVER MUCH OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING THURSDAY AFTERNOON.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL
DEVELOP FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT IN CONVERSE AND
NIOBRARA COUNTIES.

NEZ002-003-019>021-054-055-095-096-061630-
DAWES-BOX BUTTE-SCOTTS BLUFF-BANNER-MORRILL-KIMBALL-CHEYENNE-
NORTH SIOUX-SOUTH SIOUX-
1019 AM MDT WED AUG 5 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN
NEBRASKA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN NEBRASKA
DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE NORTHERN NEBRASKA
PANHANDLE WHERE THERE WILL BE FAVORABLE WIND SHEAR AND INSTABILITY.
THE MAIN HAZARDS WILL BE STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP
SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT IN THE NORTHERN
NEBRASKA PANHANDLE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 5, 3:44 PM MDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 1:54 PM MDTFire Weather WatchCYS12 hr
Aug 5, 3:44 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementCYSKimball46 min
Aug 5, 5:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementCYSDawes43 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Nebraska, 2015Every special weather statement in 2015

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.