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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Riverton, WY

June 9, 2000Big Horn County, Wyoming

NWS Riverton, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2000, 1:53 PM MDT for Big Horn County, Wyoming. It was in force for 42 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 2000, 1:53 PM MDT (19:53 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2000, 2:35 PM MDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Riverton, WY
Area
Whole counties

County Big Horn County, WY

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 9, 2:00 PM MDTHail 0.88Deaver, WY
Jun 9, 2:05 PM MDTHail 0.88Cowley, WY
Jun 9, 2:11 PM MDTHail 1Cowley, WY

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 165 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, Riverton, WY at 12:00Z on 2000-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Riverton, WY at 12:00Z on 2000-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS55 KRIW 091954
SVRRIW
WYC003-092035-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY
153 PM MDT FRI JUN 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RIVERTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BIG HORN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING

* UNTIL 235 PM MDT

* AT 144 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTH OF DEAVER...OR ABOUT 8 MILES
  NORTHEAST OF POWELL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  7 MILES NORTHWEST OF BYRON AROUND 145 PM MDT
  NEAR DEAVER AROUND 150 PM MDT
  NEAR COWLEY AROUND 200 PM MDT
  NEAR LOVELL AROUND 210 PM MDT

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING...
  DAMAGING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS
  WINDS UP TO 60 MILES AN HOUR
  VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER 
AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. 

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN RIVERTON.



LATO...LON 4499 10862 4475 10859 4480 10784 4501 10789

T. BAKER

WCJIN-WYNW

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 12:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRIWPark43 min
Jun 9, 1:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRIWPark35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wyoming, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.