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Red Flag Warning 11, NWS Riverton, WY

July 25, 20156 counties in Wyoming

NWS Riverton, WY issued this red flag warning at Jul 25, 2015, 11:28 PM MDT for 6 counties in Wyoming. It took effect at Jul 26, 2015, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 33 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
Jul 25, 2015, 11:28 PM MDT (05:28 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 26, 2015, 1:00 PM MDT
Expired
Jul 27, 2015, 10:00 PM MDT
In force
33 hr
Issued by
NWS Riverton, WY

Counties Fremont County, WY, Hot Springs County, WY, Johnson County, WY, Natrona County, WY, Sweetwater County, WY, Washakie County, WY

The radar

The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:28 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

Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 410 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, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 2015-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 284 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Rapid City, SD at 00:00Z on 2015-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -89 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
284 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2344 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-1.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Jul 25, 10:05 PM MDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 10:05 PM MDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
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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.