Alert archive / Nebraska / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 9, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this wind advisory at Apr 27, 2016, 9:38 AM MDT for 5 counties in Nebraska. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 2016, 9:38 AM MDT (15:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2016, 4:41 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 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 15:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
131 WWUS75 KCYS 271538 NPWCYS URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 938 AM MDT WED APR 27 2016 ...WINDY OVER THE SOUTHERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... .A TIGHT SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL COMBINE WITH WINDS IN THE LOWER ATMOSPHERE TO PRODUCE BLUSTERY NORTHWEST WINDS THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. NEZ019>021-054-055-280000- /O.NEW.KCYS.WI.Y.0009.160427T1538Z-160428T0000Z/ SCOTTS BLUFF-BANNER-MORRILL-KIMBALL-CHEYENNE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTTSBLUFF...GERING...HARRISBURG... ANGORA...BRIDGEPORT...BAYARD...REDINGTON...KIMBALL...BROWNSON... SIDNEY 938 AM MDT WED APR 27 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THROUGH 6 PM TODAY. * WINDS...NORTHWEST WINDS 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 50 MPH. * IMPACTS...MAINLY TO TRANSPORTATION. INCREASED RISK FOR BLOW OFFS AND BLOWOVERS OF HIGH PROFILE AND LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES. 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. && $$ RUBIN
1 follow-up statement
809 WWUS75 KCYS 272241 NPWCYS URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 441 PM MDT WED APR 27 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY CANCELLED... .THE PRESSURE GRADIENT HAS RELAXED ENOUGH TO ALLOW WINDS TO DECREASE. NEZ019>021-054-055-272345- /O.CAN.KCYS.WI.Y.0009.000000T0000Z-160428T0000Z/ SCOTTS BLUFF-BANNER-MORRILL-KIMBALL-CHEYENNE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SCOTTSBLUFF...GERING...HARRISBURG... ANGORA...BRIDGEPORT...BAYARD...REDINGTON...KIMBALL...BROWNSON... SIDNEY 441 PM MDT WED APR 27 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS HAVE NOW DECREASED BELOW ADVISORY LEVEL. $$ RUBIN
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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.