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High Wind Watch 20, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this high wind watch at Nov 15, 2013, 2:58 AM MST for 4 counties in Wyoming. It took effect at Nov 15, 2013, 11:00 PM MST. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 15, 2013, 2:58 AM MST (09:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 15, 2013, 11:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Nov 16, 2013, 2:23 PM MST
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
Counties Albany County, WY, Carbon County, WY, Laramie County, WY, Platte County, WY
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:04 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 nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 283 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
- 2967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Nov 14, 9:49 PM MST, 5 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 14, 9:49 PM MST, 5 hours 9 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 2:03 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | CYS | Albany, Carbon | 13 hr |
| Nov 15, 2:20 PM MST | High Wind Warning | CYS | Albany, Carbon, Laramie, Platte | 56 hr |
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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.