Alert archive / Wyoming / High Wind Warnings in 2017
High Wind Warning 12, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this high wind warning at Feb 25, 2017, 3:04 PM MST for Albany County, Laramie County, Platte County, Wyoming. It was in force for 3 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
- Feb 25, 2017, 3:04 PM MST (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2017, 6:29 PM MST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
Counties Albany County, WY, Laramie County, WY, Platte County, WY
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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
Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 1861 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
771 WWUS75 KCYS 252204 NPWCYS URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Cheyenne WY 304 PM MST Sat Feb 25 2017 ...Strong Winds For Bordeaux Area through Mid Evening.... WYZ106-260300- /O.NEW.KCYS.HW.W.0012.170225T2204Z-170226T0300Z/ Central Laramie Range and Southwest Platte County- Including the city of Bordeaux 304 PM MST Sat Feb 25 2017 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MST THIS EVENING... The National Weather Service in Cheyenne has issued a High Wind Warning, which is in effect until 8 PM MST this evening. * TIMING...Through 8 PM this evening. * WINDS...Westerly at 35 to 45 MPH sustained with gusts to 65 MPH. * IMPACTS...Mainly to transportation. Light weight and high profile vehicles traveling on Interstate 25 have a heightened risk of blowover. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A High Wind Warning means a hazardous high wind event is expected or occurring. Sustained wind speeds of at least 40 mph or gusts of 58 mph or more can lead to property damage. && $$
1 follow-up statement
651 WWUS75 KCYS 260129 NPWCYS URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Cheyenne WY 629 PM MST Sat Feb 25 2017 WYZ106-260230- /O.CAN.KCYS.HW.W.0012.000000T0000Z-170226T0300Z/ Central Laramie Range and Southwest Platte County- Including the city of Bordeaux 629 PM MST Sat Feb 25 2017 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... The National Weather Service in Cheyenne has cancelled the High Wind Warning. The threat for high winds has diminished along I-25 near the Bordeaux interchange, so will cancel the Warning. $$
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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.