Alert archive / Wyoming / High Wind Warnings in 2014
High Wind Warning 23, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this high wind warning at Mar 19, 2014, 5:56 PM MDT for Albany County, Laramie County, Platte County, Wyoming. It was in force for 4 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
- Mar 19, 2014, 5:56 PM MDT (23:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2014, 9:39 PM MDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
Counties Albany County, WY, Laramie County, WY, Platte County, WY
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 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 (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 1808 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
154 WWUS75 KCYS 192356 NPWCYS URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 556 PM MDT WED MAR 19 2014 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED ACROSS THE BORDEAUX AREA THROUGH TONIGHT... .THE PRESSURE GRADIENT HAS STRENGTHENED ACROSS SOUTHEAST WYOMING THIS AFTERNOON AND SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40-45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH ARE BEING REPORTED IN THE BORDEAUX AREA. THESE STRONG WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT. WYZ106-201200- /O.NEW.KCYS.HW.W.0023.140319T2356Z-140320T1200Z/ CENTRAL LARAMIE RANGE AND SOUTHWEST PLATTE COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...BORDEAUX 556 PM MDT WED MAR 19 2014 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM MDT THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM MDT THURSDAY. * TIMING...THROUGH 6 AM MDT THURSDAY. * WINDS...SUSTAINED 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH. * IMPACTS...THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT BLOW OVER RISK FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES TRAVELING ALONG INTERSTATE 25 BETWEEN MILEPOSTS 67 AND 72 BECAUSE OF STRONG WINDS. DRIVERS OF SUCH VEHICLES SHOULD NOT TRAVEL THIS STRETCH OF ROAD. THE STRONG WIND WILL CREATE DANGEROUS CROSS WINDS THAT WILL MAKE TRAVEL EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS. 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. THE LATEST ROAD CONDITIONS PROVIDED BY THE WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF ROADS ARE AVAILABLE BY CALLING 5 1 1 OR ON THE INTERNET. && $$ FINCH
1 follow-up statement
701 WWUS75 KCYS 200339 NPWCYS URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 939 PM MDT WED MAR 19 2014 WYZ106-200445- /O.CAN.KCYS.HW.W.0023.000000T0000Z-140320T1200Z/ CENTRAL LARAMIE RANGE AND SOUTHWEST PLATTE COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...BORDEAUX 939 PM MDT WED MAR 19 2014 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHEYENNE HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. THE WINDS HAVE DECREASED IN THE BORDEAUX AREA OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS AND HIGH WINDS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED. SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL STILL BE BREEZY TO WINDY AT TIMES. $$ FINCH
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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.