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High Wind Watch 20, NWS Cheyenne, WY

November 13, 2014Albany County, Carbon County, Wyoming

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this high wind watch at Nov 13, 2014, 1:43 AM MST for Albany County, Carbon County, Wyoming. It took effect at Nov 14, 2014, 5:00 AM MST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 13, 2014, 1:43 AM MST (08:43 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 14, 2014, 5:00 AM MST
Expired
Nov 13, 2014, 2:01 PM MST
In force
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY

Counties Albany County, WY, Carbon County, WY

The nearest sounding before it

Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 230 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, Riverton, WY at 00:00Z on 2014-11-13Temperature 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, Riverton, WY at 00:00Z on 2014-11-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -27 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
972 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
11 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 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 12, 10:58 PM MST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 12, 10:58 PM MST, 2 hours 45 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 12, 10:08 PM MST, 3 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
1008 PM MST WED NOV 12 2014

NEZ002-003-019>021-054-055-095-096-WYZ101>119-140515-
DAWES-BOX BUTTE-SCOTTS BLUFF-BANNER-MORRILL-KIMBALL-CHEYENNE-
NORTH SIOUX-SOUTH SIOUX-CONVERSE COUNTY LOWER ELEVATIONS-
NIOBRARA COUNTY-NORTH LARAMIE RANGE-
FERRIS/SEMINOE/SHIRLEY MOUNTAINS-SHIRLEY BASIN-
CENTRAL LARAMIE RANGE AND SOUTHWEST PLATTE COUNTY-
EAST PLATTE COUNTY-GOSHEN COUNTY-CENTRAL CARBON COUNTY-
NORTH SNOWY RANGE FOOTHILLS-SOUTHWEST CARBON COUNTY-
SIERRA MADRE RANGE-UPPER NORTH PLATTE RIVER BASIN-SNOWY RANGE-
LARAMIE VALLEY-SOUTH LARAMIE RANGE-SOUTH LARAMIE RANGE FOOTHILLS-
CENTRAL LARAMIE COUNTY-EAST LARAMIE COUNTY-
1008 PM MST WED NOV 12 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN
NEBRASKA...EAST CENTRAL WYOMING...SOUTH CENTRAL WYOMING AND
SOUTHEAST WYOMING.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

WIND CHILL ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT TONIGHT FOR MUCH OF THE
FORECAST AREA AS WIND CHILL TEMPERATURES PLUMMET TO BETWEEN 20
AND 30 BELOW ZERO.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

WELL BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE
PERIOD. THE NEXT CHANCE FOR MEASURABLE SNOWFALL WILL BE
SATURDAY AS ANOTHER ARCTIC AIR MASS INVADES THE REGION.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 13, 4:03 AM MSTWind Chill WarningCYSAlbany, Carbon, Converse, Laramie, Platte5 hr
Nov 13, 2:01 PM MSTHigh Wind WarningCYSAlbany, Carbon24 hr

Nearby

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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.