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High Wind Watch 7, NWS Cheyenne, WY

January 22, 20254 counties in Wyoming

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this high wind watch at Jan 22, 2025, 1:52 PM MST for 4 counties in Wyoming. It took effect at Jan 22, 2025, 8:00 PM MST. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 22, 2025, 1:52 PM MST (20:52 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 22, 2025, 8:00 PM MST
Expired: Jan 23, 2025, 1:57 AM MST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Cheyenne, WY

Counties Albany County, WY, Carbon County, WY, Laramie County, WY, Platte County, WY

The radar

The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 343 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1266 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jan 22, 10:35 AM MST, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 22, 10:35 AM MST, 3 hours 17 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 22, 1:42 PM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	CYS	Niobrara	15 hr
Jan 22, 2:18 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Platte	117 min
Jan 22, 2:46 PM MST	Snow Squall Warning	CYS	Laramie	44 min
Jan 22, 3:45 PM MST	Snow Squall Warning	CYS	Albany, Laramie	30 min
Jan 22, 4:16 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Laramie	44 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.