Alert archive / Wyoming / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 1998, 9:22 PM MDT for Converse County, Wyoming. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 1998, 9:22 PM MDT (03:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 1998, 3:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Converse County, WY
The nearest sounding before it
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 228 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3425 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCYS 020321 FFWCYS WYC009-020900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 922 PM MDT WED JUL 1 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CONVERSE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL WYOMING * UNTIL 300 AM MDT * AT 915 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINFALL MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN CONVERSE COUNTY. * THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DROPPED EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINS...IN EXCESS OF 3 TO 4 INCHES...IN NORTHERN CONVERSE COUNTY BETWEEN 30 AND 50 MILES TO THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST OF DOUGLAS OR FROM NEAR BILL TO 25 MILES WEST OF BILL. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DROP ANOTHER 2 TO 3 INCHES OVER THE SAME AREAS BY 1030. IF YOU LIVE IN A LOW LYING AREA IN NORTHERN CONVERSE COUNTY...MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. WATER MAY RISE OVER HIGHWAY 59 NORTH OF BILL AND OTHER ROADS IN NORTHERN CONVERSE COUNTY. n NEVER DRIVE THROUGH WATER COVERED ROADS. WCJIN-WYNE DMM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 7:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Converse | 60 min |
| Jul 1, 7:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Converse | 31 min |
| Jul 1, 8:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Converse | 60 min |
| Jul 1, 9:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Converse | 47 min |
| Jul 1, 10:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Niobrara | 44 min |
| Jul 2, 3:47 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | CYS | Albany | 28 min |
| Jul 2, 3:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Albany | 47 min |
| Jul 2, 4:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Laramie | 45 min |
| Jul 2, 4:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Laramie | 41 min |
| Jul 2, 5:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Laramie | 49 min |
| Jul 2, 5:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Goshen | 49 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.