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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Riverton, WY

June 28, 2003Natrona County, Wyoming

NWS Riverton, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2003, 6:58 PM MDT for Natrona 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 2003, 6:58 PM MDT (00:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2003, 8:00 PM MDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Riverton, WY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Natrona County, WY

The radar

The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 28, 2:35 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 92 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 627 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2076 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 286 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS55 KRIW 290058
SVRRIW
WYC025-290200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY
657 PM MDT SAT JUN 28 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RIVERTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL NATRONA COUNTY IN CENTRAL WYOMING

* UNTIL 800 PM MDT

* AT 657 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES EAST OF HILAND TO 15 
 MILES NORTHWEST OF HIGHLAND...OR ABOUT 51 MILES NORTHWEST OF  
 CASPER...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO 1.5 INCHES
IN DIAMETER.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS OF 60 MILES AN
HOUR.

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...INTENSE LIGHTNING IS
ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM TALL
OBJECTS. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN
RIVERTON AT 1-800-211-1448.

LAT...LON 4332 10749 4298 10747 4290 10696 4330 10693

$$

C. BAKER

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.

NWS Riverton, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 28, 2:03 PM MDT, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 2:03 PM MDT, 4 hours 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY
203 PM MDT SAT JUN 28 2003

...TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...
CONVECTION EXPECTED ALONG AND NORTHEAST OF COLD FRONT THAT HAS MOVED
ALONG CONTINENTAL DIVIDE THIS PM. DECENT SURFACE DEWPOINTS PLUS AN
UPPER AIR DISTURBANCE WILL AID IN LIFT FOR BETTER POTENTIAL FOR
STORMS. SHOULD SEE ACTIVITY DECREASE AFTER MIDNIGHT WITH THE PASSING
OF THE LIFT. ON SUNDAY THE UPPER RIDGE BUILDS INTO THE AREA. LOW
LEVEL SURFACE BOUNDARY WILL HANG AROUND THE CENTRAL AND EAST ZONES
KEEPING SOME DEWPOINT AROUND. WARM AIR ALOFT TO INCREASE WHICH WOULD
PUT A CAP ON THINGS...BUT MAY SEE ISOLATED LATE PM AND EVE CONVECTION
IN E ZONES NEAR HIGHER TERRAIN. ON MONDAY THE RIDGE AXIS MOVES BY AND
SW FLOW ALOFT TAKES OVER. VERY WARM 700MB TEMPS WITH SOME INCREASED
MIXING WILL VAULT HIGHS INTO THE 90S IN LOWER BASINS. UPPER SYSTEM
MOVES IN THE N OF THE AREA TUE WITH A COLD FRONT INTO MONTANA. WILL
KEEP THINGS HOT AND DRY FOR TUE ASIDE FROM ISOLATED TS EXTREME NW
CORNER.

...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...
NO CHANGES TO TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY IN GRIDS.

.RIW...NONE.

Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 10:09 AM MDT, 8 hours 49 minutes before

WYZ001>020-022>030-291200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY
1009 AM MDT SAT JUN 28 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL WYOMING.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE SLIDING SOUTH OUT OF MONTANA WILL
INTERACT WITH A MOIST EASTERLY FLOW BEHIND A COLD FRONT TO PRODUCE
SCATTERED LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE CENTRAL
PORTIONS OF THE AREA. THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD FIRST DEVELOP OVER THE
NORTHERN MOUNTAINS...ESPECIALLY THE SOUTHERN ABSAROKAS AND THEN
BEGIN TO MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO THE WIND RIVER BASIN. OTHER
THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE WIND RIVER BASIN AND
NATRONA COUNTY THROUGH THE EVENING. THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR A FEW
OF THESE STORMS TO BECOME QUITE STRONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 28, 3:16 PM MDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY
0316 PM MDT SAT JUN 28 2003

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0305 PM    BUFFALO                   WY   0.75 IN HAIL
06/28/03   JOHNSON                        REPORTED BY JOHNSON COUNTY
                                          SHERIFF

HAHN

Local storm report, Jun 28, 4:39 PM MDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY
0439 PM MDT SAT JUN 28 2003

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0400 PM    58 NW RIVERTON            WY   1.00 IN HAIL
06/28/03   FREMONT                        REPORTED BY PUBLIC

HAHN

Local storm report, Jun 28, 6:55 PM MDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON, WY
655 PM MDT SAT JUN 28 2003

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0512 PM    7N FORT WASHAKIE          WY   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/28/03   FREMONT                        REPORTED BY SPOTTERS

0529 PM    FORT WASHAKIE             WY   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/28/03   FREMONT                        REPORTED BY
PUBLIC

0440 PM    10 N FORT WASHAKIE        WY   FUNNEL CLOUD
06/28/03   FREMONT                        FUNNEL CLOUD WAS SEEN 10
                                          MILES SOUTHWEST OF PILOT
                                          BUTTE.REPORTED BY SPOTTERS

0455 PM    10 N FORT WASHAKIE        WY   FUNNEL CLOUD
06/28/03   FREMONT                        WAS WITNESSED BY AN
                                          AMBULANCE DRIVER DRIVING
                                          FROM FORT WASHAKIE TO
                                          CROWHEART. AT THE TIME OF
                                          THE REPORT... RADAR
                                          INDICATED THE STORM WAS 10
                                          MILES NORTH OF FORT
                                          WASHAKIE.REPORTED BY OTHER

0529 PM    7N LANDER                 WY   FUNNEL CLOUD
06/28/03   FREMONT                        REPORTED BY THE KTWO
                                          TELEVISION CREW THAT WAS
                                          ALREADY THERE COVERING
                                          ANOTHER STORY IN
                                          LANDER.REPORTED BY OTHER

0545 PM    LANDER                    WY   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/28/03   FREMONT                        REPORTED BY NATIONAL
                                          WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEE

0619 PM    HILAND                    WY   1.00 INCH HAIL
06/28/03   NATRONA                        REPORTED BY SPOTTERS

0645 PM    15 N FORT WASHAKIE        WY   FUNNEL CLOUD
06/28/03   FREMONT                        THE DISTANCE THE FUNNEL
                                          CLOUD WAS OBSERVED FROM
                                          WHERE THE SPOTTER WAS WAS
                                          ESTIMATED. REPORTED BY
                                          SPOTTERS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 6:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RIW	Natrona	58 min
Jun 28, 6:33 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	RIW	Fremont	57 min
Jun 28, 7:13 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	RIW	Fremont, Natrona	6 hr
Jun 28, 7:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RIW	Fremont	46 min

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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.