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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 309, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2026, 6:08 PM MDT for Goshen County, Laramie County, Wyoming; Banner County, Nebraska. It was in force for 40 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
- Aug 26, 2026, 6:08 PM MDT (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2026, 6:48 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Banner County, NE, Goshen County, WY, Laramie County, WY
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 3:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 310 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
- 927 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1765 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 6:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Laramie | 30 min |
| Aug 26, 6:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Niobrara | 29 min |
| Aug 26, 6:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Niobrara | 29 min |
| Aug 26, 6:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Goshen, Laramie | 19 min |
| Aug 26, 6:40 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Platte | 35 min |
| Aug 26, 7:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Converse | 30 min |
| Aug 26, 7:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Converse | 26 min |
| Aug 27, 4:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Laramie | 35 min |
| Aug 27, 3:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Dawes | 51 min |
| Aug 27, 4:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Dawes | 32 min |
| Aug 27, 4:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte, Dawes | 48 min |
| Aug 27, 5:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Box Butte, Dawes | 49 min |
Nearby
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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.