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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this high wind watch at Jan 1, 2025, 1:12 PM MST for Albany County, Carbon County, Laramie County, Wyoming. It took effect at Jan 2, 2025, 8:00 AM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 1, 2025, 1:12 PM MST (20:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 2, 2025, 8:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2025, 2:44 AM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Cheyenne, WY
Counties Albany County, WY, Carbon County, WY, Laramie County, WY
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 274 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
- 1663 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 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 watch 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 high wind watch went out at Jan 1, 10:28 AM MST, 2 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 1, 10:28 AM MST, 2 hours 44 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Cheyenne WY 321 AM MST Wed Jan 1 2025 NEZ002-003-019>021-054-055-095-096-WYZ101>111-113-115>119-021030- 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- Upper North Platte River Basin-Laramie Valley-South Laramie Range- South Laramie Range Foothills-Central Laramie County- East Laramie County- 321 AM MST Wed Jan 1 2025 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of panhandle Nebraska...east central Wyoming...south central Wyoming and southeast Wyoming. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT Elevated winds expected today near Arlington and along the I-80 Summit, though high winds are not anticipated at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY Prolonged active pattern across southeast Wyoming and western Nebraska with several chances for accumulating snow this weekend into early next week. .Spotter information statement... Spotter activation will not be needed. WYZ112-114-021030- Sierra Madre Range-Snowy Range- 321 AM MST Wed Jan 1 2025 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of south central Wyoming. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A Winter Storm warning remains in effect for the Sierra Madre and Snowy Ranges from 11am Wednesday though 5pm Thursday. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY Prolonged active pattern across southeast Wyoming and western Nebraska with several chances for accumulating snow this weekend into early next week. .Spotter information statement... Spotter activation will not be needed.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 1, 9:36 AM MST, 3 hours 36 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 8:51 AM MST | High Wind Warning | CYS | Albany, Carbon | 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.