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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Riverton, WY
NWS Riverton, WY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2015, 4:12 PM MDT for Park County, Teton County, Wyoming. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 2015, 4:12 PM MDT (22:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2015, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Riverton, WY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Park County, WY, Teton County, WY
The radar
The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 1:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -286 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1999 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Riverton, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 3:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | RIW | Hot Springs | 36 min |
| Aug 5, 3:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | RIW | Big Horn | 44 min |
| Aug 5, 4:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | RIW | Big Horn | 45 min |
| Aug 5, 4:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | RIW | Teton | 38 min |
| Aug 5, 5:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | RIW | Big Horn | 40 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.