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High Wind Watch 14, NWS Riverton, WY
NWS Riverton, WY issued this high wind watch at Oct 17, 2017, 12:42 AM MDT for Park County, Wyoming. It took effect at Oct 17, 2017, 6:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 17, 2017, 12:42 AM MDT (06:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 17, 2017, 6:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Oct 17, 2017, 12:49 PM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Riverton, WY
County Park County, WY
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 167 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:41 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
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 336 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
- 3392 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Oct 16, 1:31 PM MDT, 11 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 16, 1:31 PM MDT, 11 hours 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Riverton, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 12:49 PM MDT | High Wind Warning | RIW | Park | 14 hr |
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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.