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High Wind Warning 6, NWS Riverton, WY

February 22, 2025Fremont County, Hot Springs County, Park County, Wyoming

NWS Riverton, WY issued this high wind warning at Feb 22, 2025, 11:38 AM MST for Fremont County, Hot Springs County, Park County, Wyoming. It took effect at Feb 23, 2025, 5:00 AM MST. It was in force for 36 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: Feb 22, 2025, 11:38 AM MST (18:38 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 23, 2025, 5:00 AM MST
Expired: Feb 24, 2025, 5:00 PM MST
In force: 36 hr
Issued by: NWS Riverton, WY

Counties Fremont County, WY, Hot Springs County, WY, Park County, WY

The radar

The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:37 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

Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 432 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: 1797 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 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 warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Riverton, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind warning went out at Feb 22, 10:26 AM MST, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 10:26 AM MST, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 22, 1:25 AM MST	High Wind Watch	RIW	Fremont, Hot Springs, Park	10 hr
Feb 22, 11:47 AM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	RIW	Fremont, Lincoln, Park, Sublette, Teton	43 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.