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Wind Chill Watch 2, NWS Riverton, WY
NWS Riverton, WY issued this wind chill watch at Dec 29, 2014, 1:21 AM MST for 5 counties in Wyoming. It took effect at Dec 30, 2014, 12:00 AM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 29, 2014, 1:21 AM MST (08:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 30, 2014, 12:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Dec 29, 2014, 12:02 PM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Riverton, WY
Counties Fremont County, WY, Lincoln County, WY, Natrona County, WY, Sublette County, WY, Sweetwater County, WY
The radar
The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:21 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
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 975 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill 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 wind chill watch went out at Dec 28, 10:07 PM MST, 3 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 28, 10:07 PM MST, 3 hours 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Riverton, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 29, 12:02 PM MST | Wind Chill Warning | RIW | Fremont, Lincoln, Natrona, Sublette, Sweetwater | 48 hr |
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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.