A cold front pushed south across the area resulting in widely scattered severe thunderstorms over western Nebraska during the evening and late evening hours. Mostly strong gusty winds were reported along with small hail.
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A cold front pushed south across the area resulting in widely scattered severe thunderstorms over western Nebraska during the evening and late evening hours. Mostly strong gusty winds were reported along with small hail. A landspout tornado was also reported earlier in the afternoon.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jun 7, 1:35 PM MST, 19 minutes earlier. Its key messages:
Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Cheyenne WY
235 PM MDT Sun Jun 7 2026
.KEY MESSAGES...
- A Marginal Risk of Severe thunderstorms expected Sunday with a
Slight Risk (2 of 5) of severe thunderstorms possible Monday
for eastern Wyoming and the Nebraska Panhandle, with all
severe hazards possible.
- Expect a quick cool down on Monday before heat builds back into
the area towards the middle of next week.
- Fire Weather Watch in effect for the eastern high plains of
southeast Wyoming and all of western Nebraska Tuesday through
late Wednesday, with critical fire weather conditions likely
extending through late in the week.
&&
.SHORT TERM /THROUGH TUESDAY/...
Issued at 235 PM MDT Sun Jun 7 2026
Current observations across the region show generally mostly sunny
skies, but increasing clouds as we head towards peak heating of
the day. A surface cold front, which has hardly moved in the
past few hours, is currently located across central and northeast
Wyoming, just a bit outside of our forecast area. Further
south, a dryline-like boundary extends south of the cold front,
roughly paralleling the Wyoming/Nebraska border. Dry conditions
with inverted-V soundings located west of this dryline with
dewpoints in the 20s to low 30s. East of the dryline is where
the best instability is located with dewpoints in the 40s and
50s with SBCAPE values between 1000 to 2000 j/kg. Still fighting
a little bit of CIN in the boundary layer, but expect CIN to
slowly erode over the next few hours. Expect any strong to
marginally severe thunderstorms to form along and east of this
boundary late this afternoon and into this evening. SPC has a
Marginal Risk for severe thunderstorms across most of western
Nebraska, east central Wyoming, and portions of Carbon county
(mainly for winds). After a mesoscale analysis, currently
lacking in the shear department (0-6 and effective), but shear
does increase this evening through late this evening with 40
knots of shear around sunset. This should be sufficient for a
few strong to marginally severe storms across mostly the
Nebraska Panhandle, but can't rule out some activity in eastern
Wyoming as well. There is a small area of Slight Risk, but
that's mainly across the far northern part of Niobrara County.
Based on high res model data, there may be two individual times
for the strong/severe thunderstorm threat. First one being this
evening as the dryline-like boundary tracks east, and the second
may be later this evening and into tonight as outflow from
thunderstorms across eastern Montana and the Dakotas move into
our eastern plains as the cold front accelerate southward. This
second line of thunderstorms may linger past midnight.
Tricky forecast for Monday with another Slight Risk for severe
thunderstorms expected, this time over far southeast Wyoming and
the southern Nebraska Panhandle. Some models don't seem to be
handling the low level moisture well with this event (especially
the GFS) and/or mix it out way too early with the heating of the
day. Surface cold front should move across the rest of the area
by the early morning hours with thunderstorm outflow, from
activity to the north and east, providing the low level moisture
with some upslope flow. In fact, added some patchy fog to the
east side of the Laramie Range as winds shift into the northeast
later tonight. With increasing low to midlevel shear,
confidence is increasing for another round of severe
thunderstorms forming near the I-80 corridor and North Platte
River valley. Will have to watch for all modes of severe
weather, including 1 or 2 tornadoes, with 0-1km helicity between
100 to 200 and relatively low LCL's between 1500 to 2000
meters. Large hail is also a concern across the area. It will be
around 5 to 10 degrees cooler compared to today behind the cold
front, with highs generally in the upper 70s to mid 80s.
For Tuesday, all models show increasing southwest flow aloft as
the broad Pacific trough finally tracks east into Wyoming.
Increasing west to southwest winds will bring dry air advection
to the whole area and greatly limit any thunderstorm threat.
Tuesday will be our warmest day of the week with highs in the
80s west of the I-25 corridor, and upper 80s to upper 90s east
of I-25. With very warm/hot temperatures, dry conditions, and
gusty winds, decided to issue a Fire Weather Watch for far
southeast Wyoming and all of western Nebraska. Since similar
conditions are expected on Wednesday with poor overnight
recoveries, decided to make the Watch valid through Wednesday
evening.
&&
.LONG TERM /TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/...
Issued at 100 PM MDT Sun Jun 7 2026
Tuesday into Wednesday, the Intermountain West switches from
southerly flow to a downsloping westerly flow as the upper level
low becomes stack moving along the Canadian Border. This will
lead to the continuation of warmer temperatures, but also a more
likely chance to break the cap when combined with the progged
frontal boundary moving through Wednesday afternoon/evening. Our
windiest day looks to be Wednesday as the 700mb ramps up to
about 50- 55 knots by the afternoon giving us gusty winds but
possibly not enough to meet the high wind criteria if those
winds stay below 55 knots.By Thursday and area of high pressure
looks to build in that may stay through the weekend. Fire
Weather remains a concern throughout the long term as RH values
look to bounce between 15 and 20 percent and some isolated
places dropping as low as 10 percent. The severe chances look
minimal through the long term as the stout dry layer looks to
stick around with minimal CAPE when glancing at the global model
soundings. It shouldn't be a surprise if a Red Flag warning
gets issued through Saturday. Another trough looks to push
through Saturday evening into Sunday morning giving us another
chance for some light rain to possible thunderstorm chances
Sunday.
&&
.AVIATION /18Z TAFS THROUGH 18Z MONDAY/...
Issued at 1201 PM MDT Sun Jun 7 2026
Scattered showers and thunderstorms will be developing and
possibly lasting until 06z for our Nebraska Terminals. The
Wyoming airports look to be done around 03z for the most part.
The winds are expected to become variable at 10-15kts as a
surface trough pushes through tonight into tomorrow morning.
Technically, TAF's can only have variable up to 6kts without
some convective element to it but the models are showing
variable 10 to 15kts. Monday evening, strong to severe
thunderstorms are expected past the current TAF period.
&&
.CYS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
WY...Fire Weather Watch from Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday
evening for WYZ430>433.
NE...Fire Weather Watch from Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday
evening for NEZ434>437.
&&
SHORT TERM...TJT
LONG TERM...MM
AVIATION...MMThe Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 65 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:54 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood, 1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Observer reported a landspout just east of Pine Bluffs, WY. Location for report estimated from photos and radar. No damage was reported.
Gust recorded at the Alliance Airport ASOS.
Personal weather station west of Sidney.
Personal weather station reported gust of 78.1 mph northwest of Lorenzo Nebraska.
Reported flooding on I-80. Radar imagery and traffic webcameras suggests combination of heavy rain and small, accumulating hail.
Personal weather station Northwest of Sidney.
Likely frontal passage resulted in wind gusts over 60 MPH for more than an hour. Thunderstorms do not appear to be a factor as they were well south of the area during the time of observation.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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