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High Wind Watch 16, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this high wind watch at Feb 13, 2022, 2:59 AM MST for Albany County, Laramie County, Wyoming. It took effect at Feb 13, 2022, 5:00 AM MST. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 13, 2022, 2:59 AM MST (09:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 13, 2022, 5:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2022, 2:41 PM MST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
Counties Albany County, WY, Laramie County, WY
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:59 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 317 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
- 4532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 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 Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Feb 12, 10:35 PM MST, 4 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 12, 10:35 PM MST, 4 hours 24 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 12, 4:17 AM MST, 22 hours 42 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Cheyenne WY 417 AM MST Sat Feb 12 2022 WYZ101>119-131130- Converse County Lower Elevations-Niobrara County- North Laramie Range-Ferris/Seminoe/Shirley Mountains- Shirley Basin-Central Laramie Range and Southwest Platte County- East Platte County-Goshen County-Central Carbon County- North Snowy Range Foothills-Southwest Carbon County- Sierra Madre Range-Upper North Platte River Basin-Snowy Range- Laramie Valley-South Laramie Range-South Laramie Range Foothills- Central Laramie County-East Laramie County- 417 AM MST Sat Feb 12 2022 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of east central Wyoming...south central Wyoming and southeast Wyoming. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A brief window of elevated to strong winds in the wind prone areas will be possible on Sunday. A weak storm system may bring some accumulating snowfall to to SE WY on Wednesday. .Spotter information statement... Spotter activation will not be required. NEZ002-003-019>021-054-055-095-096-131130- Dawes County-Box Butte County-Scotts Bluff County-Banner County- Morrill County-Kimball County-Cheyenne County- Northern Sioux County-Southern Sioux County- 417 AM MST Sat Feb 12 2022 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of panhandle Nebraska. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY Some light accumulations of snow will be possible on Wednesday into Wednesday night. .Spotter information statement...
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 9:08 PM MST | High Wind Warning | CYS | Albany, Carbon, Laramie, Platte | 18 hr |
| Feb 13, 1:26 PM MST | High Wind Watch | CYS | Albany, Carbon | 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.