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High Wind Watch 64, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this high wind watch at Dec 25, 2022, 5:43 PM MST for 5 counties in Wyoming. It took effect at Dec 26, 2022, 2:00 PM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 25, 2022, 5:43 PM MST (00:43 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 26, 2022, 2:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Dec 26, 2022, 1:20 PM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
Counties Albany County, WY, Carbon County, WY, Converse County, WY, Laramie County, WY, Platte County, WY
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 3517 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 92 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 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 Dec 25, 4:30 PM MST, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 25, 4:30 PM MST, 1 hour 13 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Cheyenne WY 1059 AM MST Sun Dec 25 2022 NEZ002-003-019>021-054-055-095-096-WYZ101>105-107>109-111>115-119- 261800- Dawes County-Box Butte County-Scotts Bluff County-Banner County- Morrill County-Kimball County-Cheyenne County- Northern Sioux County-Southern Sioux County- Converse County Lower Elevations-Niobrara County- North Laramie Range-Ferris/Seminoe/Shirley Mountains- Shirley Basin-East Platte County-Goshen County- Central Carbon County-Southwest Carbon County-Sierra Madre Range- Upper North Platte River Basin-Snowy Range-Laramie Valley- East Laramie County- 1059 AM MST Sun Dec 25 2022 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of panhandle Nebraska...east central Wyoming...south central Wyoming and southeast Wyoming. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT Gusty west winds of 35 to 50 MPH are expected through late this afternoon. Snow showers will develop this afternoon and evening. The Snowy and Sierra Madre mountains could receive three to five inches of accumulation. Little or no accumulation is expected for lower elevations. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY Snow showers will taper off over the mountains Monday. Very strong winds are possible Monday night through Tuesday night especially along and west of the Laramie Range. .Spotter information statement... Spotter activation will not be required. WYZ106-110-116>118-261800- Central Laramie Range and Southwest Platte County- North Snowy Range Foothills-South Laramie Range- South Laramie Range Foothills-Central Laramie County- 1059 AM MST Sun Dec 25 2022 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of south central Wyoming and southeast Wyoming. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT Very strong west winds with gusts of 60 to 70 MPH will continue through the late afternoon and early evening. High Wind Warnings remain in effect for these areas. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY Very strong winds are possible Monday night through Tuesday night. .Spotter information statement... Spotter activation will not be required.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Dec 25, 12:03 PM MST, 5 hours 40 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 26, 1:38 AM MST | High Wind Warning | CYS | Albany, Carbon, Converse, Laramie, Platte | 51 hr |
| Dec 26, 1:02 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | CYS | Albany, Carbon | 46 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.