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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Riverton, WY

June 23, 1997Johnson County, Wyoming

NWS Riverton, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1997, 6:48 PM MDT for Johnson County, Wyoming. It was in force for 62 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 23, 1997, 6:48 PM MDT (00:48 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1997, 7:50 PM MDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Riverton, WY
Area
Whole counties

County Johnson County, WY

The radar

The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 296 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 1997-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1237 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 1997-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1237 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1289 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
2.9

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The text

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

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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.