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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Riverton, WY

June 21, 1996Lincoln County, Wyoming

NWS Riverton, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1996, 7:08 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Wyoming. It was in force for 42 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: Jun 21, 1996, 7:08 PM MDT (01:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 1996, 7:50 PM MDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Riverton, WY
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, WY

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

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Special weather statement, Jun 21, 3:19 PM MDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

WYZ011>013-016>023-212120

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY
320 MDT THU JUN 20 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHERN FREMONT COUNTY
   UNTIL 355 PM...
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTHWEST WYOMING...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHERN
FREMONT COUNTY.  DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST
NORTHWEST OF RIVERTON.  THIS STORM HAS DROPPED HAIL OVER SOUTH
PASS...HUDSON AND WEST OF RIVERTON.

AT 300 PM WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
OVER CENTRAL AND NORTHERN FREMONT COUNTY.  ADDITIONAL STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ARE CURRENTLY INDICATED IN NORTHEAST UTAH...LINCOLN AND
TWO SEPERATE CLUSTERS OVER SWEETWATER COUNTIES.  THESE STORMS ARE
MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AND WILL LIKELY TRACK ALONG A SIMILAR PATH
THROUGH SOUTHERN LINCOLN AND WESTERN SWEETWATER COUNTIES AND SHOULD
ENTER FREMONT COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR.  WE CAN EXPECT THIS
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT TWO HOURS ALONG WITH
DANGEROUS WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING
AND POSSIBLE HAIL.
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WJIN-WYNW-WYSW
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Riverton, WY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 6:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RIW	Lincoln	61 min
Jun 21, 7:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RIW	Lincoln, Teton	60 min
Jun 21, 8:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RIW	Park, Teton	49 min
Jun 21, 8:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RIW	Teton	64 min
Jun 21, 9:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RIW	Teton	30 min
Jun 22, 3:16 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RIW	Park	44 min
Jun 22, 12:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RIW	Sweetwater	62 min
Jun 22, 12:47 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RIW	Park	58 min
Jun 22, 1:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RIW	Hot Springs	56 min
Jun 22, 2:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RIW	Big Horn	37 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.