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Snow Squall Warning 18, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this snow squall warning at Nov 16, 2024, 11:44 AM MST for Albany County, Carbon County, Wyoming. It was in force for 31 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
- Nov 16, 2024, 11:44 AM MST (18:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 2024, 12:15 PM MST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Albany County, WY, Carbon County, WY
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 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 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 1037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 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 Nov 16, 10:49 AM MST, 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 16, 10:49 AM MST, 55 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 15, 1:33 PM MST, 22 hours 11 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Cheyenne WY 133 PM MST Fri Nov 15 2024 NEZ002-003-019>021-054-055-095-096-WYZ101>119-162045- 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-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- 133 PM MST Fri Nov 15 2024 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of panhandle Nebraska...east central Wyoming...south central Wyoming and southeast Wyoming. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .Spotter information statement... Spotter activation will not be needed.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 1:54 AM MST | High Wind Watch | CYS | Albany, Carbon, Laramie, Platte | 8 hr |
| Nov 16, 9:32 AM MST | High Wind Warning | CYS | Albany, Carbon, Laramie, Platte | 29 hr |
| Nov 16, 9:48 AM MST | Snow Squall Warning | CYS | Carbon | 27 min |
| Nov 16, 10:14 AM MST | Snow Squall Warning | CYS | Carbon | 31 min |
| Nov 16, 10:44 AM MST | Snow Squall Warning | CYS | Albany, Carbon | 31 min |
| Nov 16, 11:15 AM MST | Snow Squall Warning | CYS | Albany, Carbon | 30 min |
| Nov 16, 1:20 PM MST | Snow Squall Warning | CYS | Carbon | 25 min |
| Nov 16, 1:44 PM MST | Snow Squall Warning | CYS | Carbon | 31 min |
| Nov 16, 2:23 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Laramie | 52 min |
Nearby
Snow Squall Warnings in Wyoming, 2024Every snow squall warning in 2024
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.