Alert archive / Wyoming / Flash Flood Warnings in 1995
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Riverton, WY
NWS Riverton, WY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 1995, 3:27 AM MDT for Fremont County, Wyoming. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 1995, 3:27 AM MDT (09:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1995, 1:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Riverton, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fremont County, WY
The nearest sounding before it
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 19 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
- 3142 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLND 140931 FFWLND WYC013-141930- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LANDER WY 327 AM MDT FRI JUL 14 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LANDER WY HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL WYOMING ...FREMONT COUNTY THE WIND RIVER NEAR RIVERTON IS FLOODING. AT 1 AM THE RIVER HAD RISEN TO 9.5 FEET...FLOOD STAGE IS 9.0 FEET. THE WIND RIVER WAS ALSO ABOVE FLOOD STAGE NEAR CROWHEART...SOME 50 MILES UPSTREAM FROM RIVERTON. AT CROWHEART...THE STAGE WAS 10.3 FEET. FLOOD STAGE IS 10.0 FEET. THE WIND RIVER FROM CROWHEART TO RIVERTON WILL REMAIN ABOVE FLOOD STAGE THROUGH THIS MORNING. THE WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION REPORTS WATER OVER HIGHWAY 789 NEAR THE ETHETE TURNOFF...JUST SOUTH OF THE WIND RIVER BRIDGE. PERSONS ALONG THE WIND RIVER SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED> ROADWAYS. WCJIN-WYNW BUSH
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 10:04 PM MDT, 5 hours 23 minutes before
WYZ054-055-056-140500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CASPER WY 1005 PM MDT THU JUL 13 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH NORTHEAST WYOMING... AT 1000 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST CAMPBELL COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF ROCKYPOINT 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF GILLETTE. ALSO... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN JOHNSON COUNTY ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO NORTHWEST CAMPBELL COUNTY IN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. ALL OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. STRONG WIND GUSTS...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND REMAIN INDOORS. WCJIN-WYNE JONES
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 10:05 PM MDT, 5 hours 22 minutes before
WYZ054-055-056-140500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CASPER WY 1005 PM MDT THU JUL 13 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH NORTHEAST WYOMING... AT 1000 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST CAMPBELL COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF ROCKYPOINT 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF GILLETTE. ALSO... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN JOHNSON COUNTY ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO NORTHWEST CAMPBELL COUNTY IN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. ALL OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. STRONG WIND GUSTS...SMALL HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND REMAIN INDOORS. WCJIN-WYNE JONES
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 11:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
WYZ054>057-140600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CASPER WY 1100 PM MDT THU JUL 13 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHEAST WYOMING... AT 1055 PM MDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN CAMPBELL AND EXTREME NORTHERN CROOK COUNTY WERE INDICATED BY RADAR. ONE STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED 35 MILES NORTH OF SUNDANCE IN CROOK COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF GILLETTE IN CAMPBELL COUNTY. MOVEMENT ON THIS STORM WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS IF THESE STORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA. WCJIN-WYNE JONES
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 11:45 PM MDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
WYZ054>057-140645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CASPER WY 1145 PM MDT THU JUL 13 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH NORTHEAST WYOMING... AT 1140 PM MDT...RADAR INDICATED THAT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN CAMPBELL COUNTY. THE LINE OF STORMS EXTENDED FROM THE MONTANA BORDER TO 20 MILES EAST OF GILLETTE. THE STRONGEST STORMS IN THIS LINE WERE 15 MILES EAST OF GILLETTE AND 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF GILLETTE. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND SHOULD MOVE INTO CROOK COUNTY BY MIDNIGHT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS IF THESE STORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA. TUNE IN LOCAL MEDIA SOURCES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. WCJIN-WYNE JONES
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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.