Alert archive / Wyoming / Flash Flood Watches in 2007
Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Riverton, WY
NWS Riverton, WY issued this flash flood watch at Jul 27, 2007, 12:01 PM MDT for 9 counties in Wyoming. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 2007, 12:01 PM MDT (18:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2007, 12:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Riverton, WY
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Big Horn County, WY, Fremont County, WY, Hot Springs County, WY, Johnson County, WY, Natrona County, WY, Park County, WY, Sublette County, WY, Sweetwater County, WY, Washakie County, WY
The radar
The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 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
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at Jul 27, 11:12 AM MDT, 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 11:12 AM MDT, 49 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 27, 5:01 AM MDT, 7 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY 501 AM MDT FRI JUL 27 2007 WYZ001>020-022>030-281101- ABSAROKA MOUNTAINS-BIGHORN MOUNTAINS SOUTHEAST- BIGHORN MOUNTAINS WEST-CASPER MOUNTAIN-CODY FOOTHILLS- EAST SWEETWATER COUNTY-FLAMING GORGE- GREEN MOUNTAINS AND RATTLESNAKE RANGE-JACKSON HOLE-LANDER FOOTHILLS- NATRONA COUNTY LOWER ELEVATIONS-NORTH BIG HORN BASIN- NORTHEAST JOHNSON COUNTY-OWL CREEK AND BRIDGER MOUNTAINS- ROCK SPRINGS AND GREEN RIVER-SALT RIVER AND WYOMING RANGES- SOUTH LINCOLN COUNTY-SOUTHEAST BIG HORN BASIN- SOUTHEAST JOHNSON COUNTY-SOUTHWEST BIG HORN BASIN-STAR VALLEY- TETON AND GROS VENTRE MOUNTAINS-UPPER GREEN RIVER BASIN- UPPER GREEN RIVER BASIN FOOTHILLS-UPPER WIND RIVER BASIN- WIND RIVER BASIN-WIND RIVER MOUNTAINS EAST-WIND RIVER MOUNTAINS WEST- YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK- 501 AM MDT FRI JUL 27 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT VERY MOIST AIRMASS WILL REMAIN OVER THE REGION TODAY...AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WHICH DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN. FLASH FLOODING WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE HIGHEST THREAT FOR FLASH FLOODING WILL BE EAST OF THE DIVIDE...WHERE THERE WILL BE A GREATER SUPPLY OF ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY DRIER AIR WILL BEGIN TO MOVE INTO WYOMING OVER THE WEEKEND... DECREASING THE CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ASKED TO REPORT ANY FLOODING OR RAINFALL AMOUNTS THROUGH TONIGHT. THANK YOU. TRIW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Riverton, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 5:01 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | RIW | Natrona | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 1:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RIW | Fremont | 64 min |
| Jul 27, 4:18 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | RIW | Park | 117 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Wyoming, 2007Every flash flood watch 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.