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Red Flag Warning 16, NWS Riverton, WY

August 28, 20207 counties in Wyoming

NWS Riverton, WY issued this red flag warning at Aug 28, 2020, 3:11 PM MDT for 7 counties in Wyoming. It took effect at Aug 29, 2020, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 33 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
Aug 28, 2020, 3:11 PM MDT (21:11 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 29, 2020, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Aug 30, 2020, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
33 hr
Issued by
NWS Riverton, WY

Counties Fremont County, WY, Lincoln County, WY, Natrona County, WY, Sublette County, WY, Sweetwater County, WY, Teton County, WY, Uinta County, WY

The radar

The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 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

Salt Lake City I, UT (KSLC), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 285 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, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2020-08-28Temperature 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 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Salt Lake City I, UT at 12:00Z on 2020-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2472 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 27, 6:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIWPark42 min
Aug 27, 6:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIWJohnson47 min
Aug 28, 1:59 AM MDTFire Weather WatchRIWFremont, Lincoln, Sublette, Sweetwater, Teton, Uinta13 hr

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.