Alert archive / Wyoming / High Wind Warnings in 2011
High Wind Warning 50, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this high wind warning at Nov 18, 2011, 7:46 PM MST for Albany County, Laramie County, Wyoming. It took effect at Nov 19, 2011, 3:00 AM MST. It was in force for 64 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
- Nov 18, 2011, 7:46 PM MST (02:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 19, 2011, 3:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Nov 19, 2011, 4:04 AM MST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
Counties Albany County, WY, Laramie County, WY
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:47 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 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 4093 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
562 WWUS75 KCYS 190246 NPWCYS URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 746 PM MST FRI NOV 18 2011 ...STRONG WINDS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE SOUTHERN LARAMIE RANGE LATE TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... .WEST WINDS WILL BECOME STRONG AFTER MIDNIGHT OVER THE SOUTHERN LARAMIE RANGE AND CONTINUE THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. THE STRONG WINDS WILL OCCUR BEHIND A PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WHICH WILL MOVE ACROSS THE CENTRAL ROCKIES. WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON SATURDAY. WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DECREASE SATURDAY AFTERNOON. WYZ116-117-191500- /O.UPG.KCYS.HW.A.0028.111119T1000Z-111119T2000Z/ /O.NEW.KCYS.HW.W.0050.111119T1000Z-111119T1900Z/ SOUTH LARAMIE RANGE-SOUTH LARAMIE RANGE FOOTHILLS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...VEDAUWOO...BUFORD...PUMPKIN VINE... HORSE CREEK...HARRIMAN...WHITAKER 746 PM MST FRI NOV 18 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO NOON MST SATURDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO NOON MST SATURDAY. THE HIGH WIND WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * TIMING...3 AM THROUGH NOON SATURDAY. * WINDS...SUSTAINED WEST WINDS WILL BE AT 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH. * IMPACTS...TRAVEL WILL BE DIFFICULT FOR THOSE WITH LIGHTWEIGHT OR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ON INTERSTATES 80 OVER THE SOUTHERN LARAMIE RANGE. 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. && $$ HAHN
1 follow-up statement
062 WWUS75 KCYS 191104 NPWCYS URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 404 AM MST SAT NOV 19 2011 ...THREAT FOR HIGH WINDS HAS DIMINISHED THIS MORNING... .STRONG WINDS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED THIS MORNING. THE COLD FRONT WHICH WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR SOME GUSTY WINDS OVERNIGHT HAS MOVED EAST OF THE AREA AND NO LONGER POSES A WIND THREAT. WYZ116-117-191215- /O.CAN.KCYS.HW.W.0050.000000T0000Z-111119T1900Z/ SOUTH LARAMIE RANGE-SOUTH LARAMIE RANGE FOOTHILLS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...VEDAUWOO...BUFORD...PUMPKIN VINE... HORSE CREEK...HARRIMAN...WHITAKER 404 AM MST SAT NOV 19 2011 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. STRONG WINDS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED THIS MORNING. $$
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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.