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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Riverton, WY
NWS Riverton, WY issued this red flag warning at May 2, 2024, 3:49 AM MDT for Natrona County, Wyoming. It took effect at May 2, 2024, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 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 2, 2024, 3:49 AM MDT (09:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 2, 2024, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- May 2, 2024, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Riverton, WY
County Natrona County, WY
The radar
The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:53 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 449 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
- 90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2423 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Riverton, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 1:49 PM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | RIW | Fremont, Sublette | 25 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.