Alert archive / Wyoming / High Wind Watches in 2014

High Wind Watch 3, NWS Riverton, WY

January 10, 2014Lincoln County, Sweetwater County, Wyoming

NWS Riverton, WY issued this high wind watch at Jan 10, 2014, 1:31 AM MST for Lincoln County, Sweetwater County, Wyoming. It took effect at Jan 11, 2014, 8:00 PM MST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 10, 2014, 1:31 AM MST (08:31 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 11, 2014, 8:00 PM MST
Expired: Jan 11, 2014, 2:00 PM MST
In force
Issued by: NWS Riverton, WY

Counties Lincoln County, WY, Sweetwater County, WY

The radar

The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:33 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

Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2025 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 Jan 9, 10:33 PM MST, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 9, 10:33 PM MST, 2 hours 58 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 9, 10:37 PM MST, 2 hours 54 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 10, 1:46 AM MST	Winter Storm Watch	RIW	Fremont, Hot Springs, Lincoln, Park, Sublette, Teton	11 hr
Jan 10, 1:01 PM MST	High Wind Warning	RIW	Big Horn, Fremont, Hot Springs, Johnson, Lincoln, Natrona and 4 more	3 days
Jan 10, 1:06 PM MST	Winter Storm Warning	RIW	Fremont, Hot Springs, Lincoln, Park, Sublette, Teton	64 hr
Jan 10, 1:06 PM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	RIW	Lincoln, Sublette, Sweetwater	64 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Wyoming, 2014 Every high wind watch in 2014

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.