Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Cheyenne, WY

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
1220 PM MDT WED APR 26 1989

...A DEVELOPING SPRING STORM WILL BRING A RETURN TO WINTER LIKE WEATHER
TO WYOMING THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...

A DEVELOPING SPRING STORM OVER THE WESTERN UNITED STATES AT NOONTIME
WEDNESDAY WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SLOWLY EAST. THIS STORM WILL BRING A
RETURN TO WINTER WEATHER TO WYOMING LATE TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY
NIGHT.

THE PRECIPITATION WILL BE MAINLY IN THE FORM OF SNOW ACROSS NORTHERN
WYOMING LATE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY...WITH SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL LIKELY.
THE HEAVIER AMOUNTS WILL BE IN THE ABSAROKA AND BIG HORN MOUNTAINS. THE
POSSIBILITY OF SNOW WILL SPREAD TO SOUTHERN WYOMING THURSDAY NIGHT.

MEANWHILE...AHEAD OF THE SPRING STORM SYSTEM WILL BE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS. AT NOON MDT A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS NOTED
FROM SOUTH OF JACKSON TO NEAR ROCK SPRINGS. THIS AREA WAS MOVING TO
THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR OVER MAINLY
THE SOUTH AND EAST PARTS OF THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT.
SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE...STRONG WIND GUSTS...HAIL AND BRIEF
HEAVY RAIN...ESPECIALLY IN EASTERN WYOMING.

THIS IS A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SPRING STORM AND THOSE TRAVELING OR
WITH OUTSIDE INTERESTS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THIS EVENING AND SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL ACROSS
THE NORTH LATE TONIGHT AND THURSDAY. STOCKMEN IN THE NORTH PART OF 7THE
STATE SHOULD TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT YOUNG LIVESTOCK FROM THE COLD
AND WET WEATHER.
WEILAND