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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Cheyenne, WY

August 3, 2007Laramie County, Wyoming

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2007, 2:58 PM MDT for Laramie County, Wyoming. It was in force for 52 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 3, 2007, 2:58 PM MDT (20:58 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2007, 3:50 PM MDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Laramie County, WY

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 202 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2007-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 277 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2007-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
277 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-177 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 3, 3:30 AM MDT, 11 hours 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 3:30 AM MDT, 11 hours 28 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 10:55 AM MDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
1055 AM MDT FRI AUG 3 2007

NEZ001>003-019>021-054-055-WYZ060-067>070-041130-
SIOUX-DAWES-BOX BUTTE-SCOTTS BLUFF-BANNER-MORRILL-KIMBALL-
CHEYENNE-NIOBRARA-PLATTE-GOSHEN-CHEYENNE FOOTHILLS-PINE BLUFFS-
1055 AM MDT FRI AUG 3 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN NEBRASKA
PANHANDLE AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE
INTO THE EVENING HOURS. WITH PLENTY OF INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE
AVAILABLE...SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE
LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH AND HEAVY RAIN.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF LATE DAY THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF THE LARAMIE
RANGE ON SATURDAY. THERE IS ALSO A CHANCE OF LATE DAY THUNDERSTORMS
ACROSS THE AREA SUNDAY AND MONDAY. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF LATE DAY
THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED OVER THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

&&

THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGIC...AND
CLIMATE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT...
HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/CHEYENNE

WYZ059-061>066-041130-
CONVERSE-SOUTHWEST CARBON-NORTH CARBON-SNOWY RANGE-
NORTH LARAMIE RANGE-LARAMIE VALLEY-LARAMIE RANGE-
1051 AM MDT FRI AUG 3 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST WYOMING.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED THROUGH THIS EVENING.
WHILE NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED...SOME OF THE STORMS WILL
PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...BRIEF WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AND LOCALLY
HEAVY RAIN.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF LATE DAY THUNDERSTORMS FROM SATURDAY THROUGH
MONDAY. A SLIGHT CHANCE OF LATE DAY THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED
TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT.

&&

THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGIC...AND
CLIMATE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT...
HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/CHEYENNE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 3:19 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningCYSLaramie3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wyoming, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.