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Wind Advisory 18, NWS Cheyenne, WY

December 5, 20165 counties in Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this wind advisory at Dec 5, 2016, 10:18 AM MST for 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 5, 2016, 10:18 AM MST (17:18 UTC)
Expired: Dec 5, 2016, 6:00 PM MST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Cheyenne, WY

Counties Banner County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 2753 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

089 
WWUS75 KCYS 051718
NPWCYS

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
1018 AM MST MON DEC 5 2016

NEZ019>021-054-055-060100-
/O.NEW.KCYS.WI.Y.0018.161205T1718Z-161206T0100Z/
SCOTTS BLUFF-BANNER-MORRILL-KIMBALL-CHEYENNE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTTSBLUFF...GERING...HARRISBURG...
ANGORA...BRIDGEPORT...BAYARD...REDINGTON...KIMBALL...BROWNSON...
SIDNEY
1018 AM MST MON DEC 5 2016

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST THIS EVENING. 

* TIMING...UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING

* WINDS...WEST WINDS WILL SHIFT INTO THE NORTHWEST LATE THIS
  MORNING AND THIS AFTERNOON. SUSTAINED WINDS BETWEEN 30 TO 35 MPH
  WITH GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED FOR THE SOUTHERN NEBRASKA
  PANHANDLE.

* IMPACTS...MAINLY TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES WITH STRONG CROSS WINDS.
  THOSE WITH LIGHT TRAILERS OR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ARE URGED TO
  USE CAUTION THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON.  

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS
THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH
PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION.

&&

$$

1 follow-up statement

503 
WWUS75 KCYS 060107
NPWCYS

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
607 PM MST MON DEC 5 2016

NEZ019>021-054-055-060215-
/O.EXP.KCYS.WI.Y.0018.000000T0000Z-161206T0100Z/
SCOTTS BLUFF-BANNER-MORRILL-KIMBALL-CHEYENNE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTTSBLUFF...GERING...HARRISBURG...
ANGORA...BRIDGEPORT...BAYARD...REDINGTON...KIMBALL...BROWNSON...
SIDNEY
607 PM MST MON DEC 5 2016

...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED...

WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 30 AND 40 MPH WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS
EVENING...BUT SHOULD CONTINUE TO DECREASE OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
THUS...THE ADVISORY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. 

$$

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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.