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High Wind Watch 24, NWS Riverton, WY
NWS Riverton, WY issued this high wind watch at Nov 18, 2017, 9:01 PM MST for 5 counties in Wyoming. It took effect at Nov 19, 2017, 11:00 PM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 18, 2017, 9:01 PM MST (04:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 19, 2017, 11:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Nov 19, 2017, 7:44 PM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Riverton, WY
Counties Fremont County, WY, Hot Springs County, WY, Natrona County, WY, Park County, WY, Sweetwater County, WY
The radar
The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:59 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
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 13 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
- 2233 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 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 Nov 18, 1:21 PM MST, 7 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 18, 1:21 PM MST, 7 hours 40 minutes before
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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.