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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Cheyenne, WY

August 26, 2006Carbon County, Wyoming

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2006, 2:00 PM MDT for Carbon County, Wyoming. It was in force for 2 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: Aug 26, 2006, 2:00 PM MDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired: Aug 26, 2006, 2:02 PM MDT
In force: 2 min
Issued by: NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Carbon County, WY

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 187 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 26, 1:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 315 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1774 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 26, 10:40 AM MDT, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 10:40 AM MDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 26, 12:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Carbon	62 min
Aug 26, 2:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Carbon	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wyoming, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.