Alert archive / Wyoming / High Wind Warnings in 2011
High Wind Warning 22, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this high wind warning at Feb 26, 2011, 12:03 PM MST for Albany County, Laramie County, Platte County, Wyoming. It was in force for 5 hr. 2 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
- Feb 26, 2011, 12:03 PM MST (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2011, 4:47 PM MST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
Counties Albany County, WY, Laramie County, WY, Platte County, WY
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 4:06 PM MST | TSTM WND GST 54 | 13 S Glendo, WY | WINDS WERE SUSTAINED AT 37 MPH. |
| Feb 26, 4:30 PM MST | NON-TSTM WND GST 59 | 13 S Glendo, WY | WINDS WERE SUSTAINED AT 35 MPH. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1724 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 93 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
782 WWUS75 KCYS 261903 NPWCYS URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 1203 PM MST SAT FEB 26 2011 ...HIGH WINDS ARE EXPECTED NEAR BORDEAUX ON INTERSTATE 25 THIS AFTERNOON... .LOW PRESSURE ALONG THE LARAMIE RANGE ALONG WITH A STATIONARY FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL PUSH EAST OF THE BORDEAUX AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE TO PRODUCE GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS. WYZ106-270000- /O.NEW.KCYS.HW.W.0022.110226T1903Z-110227T0000Z/ CENTRAL LARAMIE RANGE AND SOUTHWEST PLATTE COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...BORDEAUX 1203 PM MST SAT FEB 26 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING...THE HIGHEST GUSTS WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON BEFORE TAPERING TO 40 TO 50 MPH THIS EVENING. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST WITH SUSTAINED SPEEDS OF 40 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. * IMPACTS...THESE HIGH WIND SPEEDS WILL AFFECT LIGHT WEIGHT TRAILORS AND HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. THESE TYPE OF VEHICLES SHOULD AVOID DRIVING THROUGH THIS AREA...DUE TO THE POTENTIAL OF BLOWING OVER. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. FOR DETAILED ROAD AND TRAVEL CONDITIONS IN WYOMING AND NEBRASKA...DIAL 5 1 1. && $$ COX
1 follow-up statement
426 WWUS75 KCYS 262347 NPWCYS URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 447 PM MST SAT FEB 26 2011 ...THE STRONG WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED SOME LATE THIS AFTERNOON IN SOUTHWEST PLATTE COUNTY... .THE STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS HAVE SUBSIDED SOME SINCE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE AREA BETWEEN CHUGWATER AND WHEATLAND. THROUGH TONIGHT...WINDS IN THAT AREA WILL BE SUSTAINED AROUND 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. WYZ106-270100- /O.CAN.KCYS.HW.W.0022.000000T0000Z-110227T0000Z/ CENTRAL LARAMIE RANGE AND SOUTHWEST PLATTE COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...BORDEAUX 447 PM MST SAT FEB 26 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. THE STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS HAVE SUBSIDED SOME SINCE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE AREA BETWEEN CHUGWATER AND WHEATLAND. THROUGH TONIGHT THE WINDS WILL REMAIN BELOW HIGH WIND CRITERIA AND WILL BE SUSTAINED AROUND 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH. $$ WEILAND
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 8:07 PM MST | Dense Fog Advisory | CYS | Albany, Laramie | 7 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in Wyoming, 2011Every high wind warning in 2011
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.