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Winter Weather Advisory 2, NWS Cheyenne, WY

January 3, 20176 counties in Wyoming; 4 counties in Nebraska

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 3, 2017, 2:20 PM MST for 6 counties in Wyoming; 4 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Jan 4, 2017, 3:16 AM MST. It was in force for 26 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 3, 2017, 2:20 PM MST (21:20 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 4, 2017, 3:16 AM MST
Expired
Jan 5, 2017, 5:35 AM MST
In force
26 hr
Issued by
NWS Cheyenne, WY

Counties Banner County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Albany County, WY, Carbon County, WY, Converse County, WY, Goshen County, WY, Laramie County, WY, Platte County, WY

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 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

Denver, CO (KDEN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 257 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, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2017-01-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2017-01-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 164 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
624 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
113 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
430 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter weather advisory went out at Jan 3, 2:19 PM MST, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 2:19 PM MST, 1 minute before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 3, 2:31 AM MSTWinter Storm WatchCYSAlbany, Carbon, Laramie, Platte12 hr

Nearby

Winter Weather Advisories in Wyoming, 2017Winter Weather Advisories in Nebraska, 2017Every winter weather advisory in 2017

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.