Alert archive / Wyoming / Snow Squall Warnings in 2022
Snow Squall Warning 1, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this snow squall warning at Mar 22, 2022, 2:23 PM MDT for Albany County, Laramie County, Wyoming. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2022, 2:23 PM MDT (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2022, 3:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
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 20:24 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
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 1602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this snow squall warning 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 snow squall warning went out at Mar 22, 11:51 AM MDT, 2 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 11:51 AM MDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 22, 4:56 AM MDT, 9 hours 27 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Cheyenne WY 456 AM MDT Tue Mar 22 2022 WYZ101-103>119-231100- Converse County Lower Elevations-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- 456 AM MDT Tue Mar 22 2022 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of east central Wyoming and most of southeast Wyoming. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT Scattered to numerous snow showers will develop and move southward by this afternoon. A snow squall can also not be ruled out. Locally heavy snow may result in very low visibilities and a quick inch of snow accumulation. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .Spotter information statement... Spotter activation will not be required. NEZ002-003-019>021-054-055-095-096-WYZ102-231100- Dawes County-Box Butte County-Scotts Bluff County-Banner County- Morrill County-Kimball County-Cheyenne County- Northern Sioux County-Southern Sioux County-Niobrara County- 456 AM MDT Tue Mar 22 2022 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of panhandle Nebraska and east central Wyoming. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT Isolated snow and rain showers are expected late this morning through this afternoon. Little or no snow accumulation is expected with this activity. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .Spotter information statement... Spotter activation will not be required.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 3:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Banner | 43 min |
Nearby
Snow Squall Warnings in Wyoming, 2022Every snow squall warning in 2022
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.