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High Wind Watch 4, NWS Riverton, WY
NWS Riverton, WY issued this high wind watch at Nov 15, 2013, 2:57 PM MST for Fremont County, Natrona County, Sweetwater County, Wyoming. It took effect at Nov 16, 2013, 9:00 AM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 15, 2013, 2:57 PM MST (21:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 16, 2013, 9:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Nov 15, 2013, 10:13 PM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Riverton, WY
Counties Fremont County, WY, Natrona County, WY, Sweetwater County, WY
The radar
The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 382 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
- 2250 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 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 Riverton, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Nov 15, 10:15 AM MST, 4 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 15, 10:15 AM MST, 4 hours 42 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 15, 5:00 AM MST, 9 hours 57 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY 500 AM MST FRI NOV 15 2013 WYZ001>020-022>030-161300- 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- 500 AM MST FRI NOV 15 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT LATE TONIGHT...A FAST MOVING STORM SYSTEM WILL BEGIN TO SPREAD POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACROSS THE WEST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY MORNING...A CONTINUATION OF POSSIBLE SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL ACROSS THE WEST. STRONG WINDS POSSIBLE...MAINLY BETWEEN ROCK SPRINGS AND CASPER SATURDAY. PLEASE SEE THE SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR MORE DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. TEAM RIVERTON
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 15, 12:04 PM MST, 2 hours 53 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Riverton, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 2:43 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | RIW | Fremont, Hot Springs, Lincoln, Park, Sublette, Teton | 32 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Watches in Wyoming, 2013Every high wind watch in 2013
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.