Alert archive / Wyoming / Red Flag Warnings in 2019
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Riverton, WY
NWS Riverton, WY issued this red flag warning at Jul 18, 2019, 2:38 AM MDT for 5 counties in Wyoming. It took effect at Jul 18, 2019, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 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
- Jul 18, 2019, 2:38 AM MDT (08:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 18, 2019, 1:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2019, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Riverton, WY
Counties Fremont County, WY, Hot Springs County, WY, Johnson County, WY, Natrona County, WY, Washakie County, WY
The radar
The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:41 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
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 386 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
- 1105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1675 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
Nearby
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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.