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High Wind Warning 12, NWS Riverton, WY
NWS Riverton, WY issued this high wind warning at May 18, 2022, 1:36 PM MDT for 6 counties in Wyoming. It took effect at May 18, 2022, 11:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 19 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
- May 18, 2022, 1:36 PM MDT (19:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 18, 2022, 11:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- May 19, 2022, 6:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Riverton, WY
Counties Fremont County, WY, Hot Springs County, WY, Lincoln County, WY, Park County, WY, Sublette County, WY, Sweetwater County, WY
The radar
The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 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
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 5263 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 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 warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Riverton, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind warning went out at May 18, 11:32 AM MDT, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 18, 11:32 AM MDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Riverton, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RIW | Big Horn | 25 min |
| May 18, 3:06 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | RIW | Fremont, Hot Springs, Lincoln, Park, Sublette, Sweetwater | 11 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.