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High Wind Watch 25, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this high wind watch at Dec 28, 2013, 1:22 PM MST for 4 counties in Wyoming. It took effect at Dec 29, 2013, 11:00 PM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 28, 2013, 1:22 PM MST (20:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 29, 2013, 11:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Dec 29, 2013, 3:18 AM MST
- In force
- 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 20:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 2744 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 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 Dec 28, 10:36 AM MST, 2 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 28, 10:36 AM MST, 2 hours 46 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Dec 28, 7:47 AM MST, 5 hours 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 747 AM MST SAT DEC 28 2013 WYZ106-281700- CENTRAL LARAMIE RANGE AND SOUTHWEST PLATTE COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...BORDEAUX 747 AM MST SAT DEC 28 2013 ...STRONG WEST WINDS AT BORDEAUX THIS MORNING... AT 730 AM THIS MORNING...THE WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION WEATHER SENSOR AT BORDEAUX REPORTED SUSTAINED WINDS AT 37 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 54 MPH. EXPECT THESE WINDS TO REMAIN STRONG THROUGH 10 AM THIS MORNING BEFORE TURNING NORTHWEST AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. THOSE TRAVELING ON INTERSTATE 25 BETWEEN CHUGWATER AND WHEATLAND SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR SUDDEN STRONG WIND GUSTS THAT COULD FORCE YOUR VEHICLE OFF THE ROAD. LIGHT WEIGHT AND HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ARE PARTICULARLY AT RISK.
Local storm report, Dec 28, 1:05 PM MST, 17 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 10:11 AM MST | Wind Advisory | CYS | Banner, Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill, Scotts Bluff, Sioux | 7 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.