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Red Flag Warning 37, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this red flag warning at Oct 3, 2024, 1:35 PM MDT for 7 counties in Wyoming; 8 counties in Nebraska. It took effect at Oct 4, 2024, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 32 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
- Oct 3, 2024, 1:35 PM MDT (19:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 4, 2024, 11:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Oct 5, 2024, 7:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 32 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
Counties Banner County, NE, Box Butte County, NE, Cheyenne County, NE, Dawes County, NE, Kimball County, NE, Morrill County, NE, Scotts Bluff County, NE, Sioux County, NE, Albany County, WY, Carbon County, WY, Converse County, WY, Goshen County, WY, Laramie County, WY, Niobrara County, WY, Platte County, WY
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 104 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
N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 318 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
- 2642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Oct 3, 11:11 AM MDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 3, 11:11 AM MDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Oct 3, 1:22 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | CYS | Albany, Carbon, Converse, Goshen, Laramie, Niobrara and 1 more | 24 hr |
| Oct 3, 1:18 PM MDT | Frost Advisory | CYS | Albany | 18 hr |
| Oct 3, 1:35 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | CYS | Goshen, Laramie | 23 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.