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Special Weather Statement, NWS Cheyenne, WY

July 31, 2016Kimball County, Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this special weather statement at Jul 31, 2016, 4:24 PM MDT for Kimball County, Nebraska. It was in force for 36 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: Jul 31, 2016, 4:24 PM MDT (22:24 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 2016, 5:00 PM MDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Cheyenne, WY

County Kimball County, NE

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 326 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.

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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: 472 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -257 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1775 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Jul 31, 3:41 PM MDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 3:41 PM MDT, 43 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 31, 2:58 PM MDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 1:56 PM MDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 3:23 PM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 3:50 PM MDT, 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 31, 4:07 PM MDT, 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 4:24 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
424 PM MDT SUN JUL 31 2016

NEZ054-312300-
KIMBALL NE-
424 PM MDT SUN JUL 31 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL KIMBALL COUNTY UNTIL 500
PM MDT...

AT 423 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
OLIVER CAMPGROUND...OR 11 MILES WEST OF KIMBALL...MOVING EAST AT 20
MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
KIMBALL...OLIVER RESERVOIR...KIMBALL AIRPORT...OLIVER CAMPGROUND AND
BUSHNELL.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 80 IN NEBRASKA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 5 AND
23.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

&&

LAT...LON 4114 10396 4132 10399 4139 10365 4114 10360
TIME...MOT...LOC 2223Z 263DEG 18KT 4124 10388

TJT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 6:51 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Goshen	24 min
Jul 30, 7:16 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Goshen	29 min
Jul 30, 7:42 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Goshen	33 min
Jul 30, 7:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Laramie	27 min
Jul 30, 7:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Goshen, Laramie, Platte	30 min
Jul 30, 8:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Laramie	37 min
Jul 30, 9:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Laramie	27 min
Jul 31, 1:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Goshen	49 min
Jul 30, 8:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Scotts Bluff	37 min
Jul 30, 9:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Dawes	26 min
Jul 30, 10:04 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Dawes	41 min
Jul 31, 3:23 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Sioux	37 min
Jul 31, 3:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Sioux	40 min
Jul 31, 5:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Box Butte	36 min
Jul 31, 5:28 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Cheyenne	47 min
Jul 31, 5:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Cheyenne	37 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.