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High Wind Watch 29, NWS Cheyenne, WY

June 16, 2025Albany County, Carbon County, Wyoming

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this high wind watch at Jun 16, 2025, 2:25 PM MDT for Albany County, Carbon County, Wyoming. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 16, 2025, 2:25 PM MDT (20:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2025, 11:00 PM MDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Cheyenne, WY

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 20:28 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, 8.4 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 683 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -303 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1277 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Jun 16, 11:14 AM MDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 11:14 AM MDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 16, 1:49 PM MDT, 36 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Cheyenne WY
149 PM MDT Mon Jun 16 2025

WYZ110-113>116-162100-
South Laramie Range WY-Upper North Platte River Basin WY-
North Snowy Range Foothills WY-Laramie Valley WY-Snowy Range WY-
149 PM MDT Mon Jun 16 2025

...GUSTY SHOWERS WILL IMPACT EAST CENTRAL CARBON AND SOUTHERN ALBANY
COUNTIES THROUGH 300 PM MDT...

At 147 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking gusty showers extending
from near Saratoga Lake to near Wild Horse Ranch. Movement was
northeast at 20 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts to 55 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Travel may be difficult at times.

Locations impacted include...
Laramie, West Laramie, Elk Mountain, Antelope Buttes, Rogers Canyon,
Bosler, Turpin Reservoir, McFadden, Bow River Campground, Laramie
Regional Airport, Deep Creek Campground, and Arlington.

This includes Interstate 80 in Wyoming between mile markers 255 and
311.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

&&

LAT...LON 4178 10644 4151 10537 4126 10567 4148 10673
TIME...MOT...LOC 1947Z 241DEG 16KT 4153 10664 4137 10584

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...55 MPH

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Cheyenne, WY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 6:53 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Niobrara	67 min
Jun 16, 1:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Albany	71 min
Jun 16, 3:31 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Laramie	29 min
Jun 16, 4:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS		53 min
Jun 16, 4:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Albany, Converse, Platte	60 min
Jun 16, 4:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Converse	51 min
Jun 16, 5:22 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Converse	53 min
Jun 16, 5:30 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CYS	Albany, Converse	3 hr
Jun 16, 5:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Converse, Niobrara	46 min
Jun 15, 6:04 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CYS	Banner, Cheyenne, Kimball	56 min
Jun 15, 6:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Banner, Box Butte, Cheyenne, Kimball, Morrill	66 min
Jun 15, 6:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Cheyenne, Morrill	59 min
Jun 16, 5:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Morrill	40 min

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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.