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Winter Storm Warning 7, NWS Riverton, WY

April 15, 20134 counties in Wyoming

NWS Riverton, WY issued this winter storm warning at Apr 15, 2013, 10:10 AM MDT for 4 counties in Wyoming. It was in force for 59 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 15, 2013, 10:10 AM MDT (16:10 UTC)
Expired
Apr 17, 2013, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
59 hr
Issued by
NWS Riverton, WY

Counties Fremont County, WY, Natrona County, WY, Sublette County, WY, Sweetwater County, WY

The radar

The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:08 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 387 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2013-04-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Grand Junction, CO at 12:00Z on 2013-04-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2408 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
547 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm warning 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 winter storm warning went out at Apr 15, 2:36 AM MDT, 7 hours 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 15, 2:36 AM MDT, 7 hours 34 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Riverton, WY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 14, 9:45 PM MDTWinter Storm WatchRIWFremont, Natrona, Sublette, Sweetwater12 hr
Apr 14, 9:45 PM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIWBig Horn, Fremont, Hot Springs, Johnson, Lincoln, Natrona and 3 more62 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Wyoming, 2013Every winter storm warning 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.