Alert archive / Wyoming / High Wind Warnings in 2017
High Wind Warning 3, NWS Riverton, WY
NWS Riverton, WY issued this high wind warning at Jan 30, 2017, 7:13 PM MST for Fremont County, Natrona County, Sweetwater County, Wyoming. It was in force for 17 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
- Jan 30, 2017, 7:13 PM MST (02:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 31, 2017, 12:00 PM MST
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Riverton, WY
Counties Fremont County, WY, Natrona County, WY, Sweetwater County, WY
The radar
The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 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
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 2505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 363 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
920 WWUS75 KRIW 310213 NPWRIW URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY 713 PM MST MON JAN 30 2017 ...STRONG WEST TO SOUTHWEST WIND THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING... .A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL CONTINUE TO BRING AREAS OF STRONG WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS FROM BEAVER RIM TO THE MUDDY GAP AREA THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT FROM THE NORTH WILL RESULT IN DIMINISHING WIND TUESDAY AFTERNOON. WYZ019-311900- /O.NEW.KRIW.HW.W.0003.170131T0213Z-170131T1900Z/ GREEN MOUNTAINS AND RATTLESNAKE RANGE- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...JEFFREY CITY 713 PM MST MON JAN 30 2017 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON MST TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RIVERTON HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON MST TUESDAY. * TIMING...AREAS OF HIGH WIND CONTINUING THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING WITH THE STRONGEST WINDS EXPECTED TONIGHT UNTIL AROUND SUNRISE TUESDAY. * WINDS...WEST TO SOUTHWEST WIND 30 TO 35 MPH, WITH GUSTS OVER 60 MPH BETWEEN JEFFREY CITY AND MUDDY GAP. * IMPACTS...HIGH WINDS WILL POSE AN EXTREME BLOWOVER RISK TO LIGHT TRAILER TRAFFIC ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 287. STRONG WINDS WILL ALSO CAUSE AREAS OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WITH LOCAL NEAR WHITEOUT CONDITIONS AT TIMES BETWEEN JEFFREY CITY AND MUDDY GAP. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
944 WWUS75 KRIW 310859 NPWRIW URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY 159 AM MST TUE JAN 31 2017 ...STRONG WEST TO SOUTHWEST WIND THROUGH THIS MORNING... .A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL CONTINUE TO BRING AREAS OF STRONG WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS FROM BEAVER RIM TO THE MUDDY GAP AREA THROUGH THE LATE MORNING HOURS. AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT FROM THE NORTH WILL RESULT IN DIMINISHING WIND THIS AFTERNOON. WYZ019-311900- /O.CON.KRIW.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-170131T1900Z/ GREEN MOUNTAINS AND RATTLESNAKE RANGE- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...JEFFREY CITY 159 AM MST TUE JAN 31 2017 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON MST TODAY... * TIMING...AREAS OF HIGH WIND CONTINUING THROUGH THIS MORNING WITH THE STRONGEST WINDS EXPECTED AROUND SUNRISE THIS MORNING. * WINDS...WEST TO SOUTHWEST WIND 30 TO 35 MPH...WITH GUSTS OVER 60 MPH BETWEEN JEFFREY CITY AND MUDDY GAP. * IMPACTS...HIGH WINDS WILL POSE AN EXTREME BLOWOVER RISK TO LIGHT TRAILER TRAFFIC ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 287. STRONG WINDS WILL ALSO CAUSE AREAS OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WITH LOCAL NEAR WHITEOUT CONDITIONS AT TIMES BETWEEN JEFFREY CITY AND MUDDY GAP. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. && $$
902 WWUS75 KRIW 311911 NPWRIW URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY 1211 PM MST TUE JAN 31 2017 ...WINDS WILL BE DIMINISHING FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON ACROSS THE GREEN MOUNTAINS AND RATTLESNAKE RANGE INCLUDING THE TOWN OF JEFFREY CITY... WYZ019-312015- /O.EXP.KRIW.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-170131T1900Z/ GREEN MOUNTAINS AND RATTLESNAKE RANGE- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...JEFFREY CITY 1211 PM MST TUE JAN 31 2017 ...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS EXPIRED... A COLD FRONT WILL BE MOVING SOUTH ACROSS THE GREEN MOUNTAINS AND RATTLESNAKE RANGE TODAY, INCLUDING THE TOWN OF JEFFREY CITY AS A COLD FRONT TRACKS SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT CAUSING THE WINDS TO CONTINUE TO DIMINISH AND SHIFT TO A NORTHERLY DIRECTION. THEREFOR THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. $$ TEAM RIVERTON
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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.