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High Wind Watch 33, NWS Cheyenne, WY

May 30, 20264 counties in Wyoming

NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this high wind watch at May 30, 2026, 1:22 AM MDT for 4 counties in Wyoming. It took effect at May 30, 2026, 9:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 30, 2026, 1:22 AM MDT (07:22 UTC)
In effect from: May 30, 2026, 9:00 PM MDT
Expired: May 31, 2026, 9:34 AM MDT
In force: 13 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 07:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 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: 759 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1616 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 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 May 29, 11:08 PM MDT, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 11:08 PM MDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 29, 7:56 PM MDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 8:26 PM MDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 29, 8:57 PM MDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 9:00 PM MDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 9:38 PM MDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 11:36 PM MDT, 1 hour 46 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
May 29, 6:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Goshen	36 min
May 29, 6:58 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Niobrara	47 min
May 30, 12:34 PM MDT	High Wind Warning	CYS	Albany, Carbon, Laramie, Platte	26 hr
May 30, 1:50 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Goshen	40 min
May 30, 2:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Goshen, Niobrara	45 min
May 30, 2:37 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Niobrara	38 min
May 30, 2:46 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Converse, Goshen, Niobrara, Platte	17 min
May 30, 3:08 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Niobrara	37 min
May 30, 3:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Laramie	43 min
May 30, 3:22 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Laramie	38 min
May 30, 4:05 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Laramie	25 min
May 30, 4:41 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CYS	Laramie	3 hr
May 30, 5:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Goshen	27 min
May 29, 6:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Banner	30 min
May 29, 6:09 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Banner, Morrill, Scotts Bluff	51 min
May 29, 6:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Sioux	45 min
May 29, 6:21 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Scotts Bluff	24 min
May 29, 6:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Morrill	27 min
May 29, 6:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Cheyenne, Kimball	50 min
May 29, 7:15 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Cheyenne	45 min
May 29, 7:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Cheyenne	48 min
May 29, 7:56 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Cheyenne	49 min
May 29, 8:26 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Morrill	49 min
May 29, 9:00 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Morrill	45 min
May 29, 9:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Box Butte	52 min
May 30, 2:25 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Dawes	35 min
May 30, 2:37 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Dawes	38 min
May 30, 3:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Dawes	19 min
May 30, 3:46 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	CYS	Dawes	3 hr
May 30, 3:54 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Kimball	36 min
May 30, 3:55 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	CYS	Kimball	35 min
May 30, 3:59 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Kimball	31 min
May 30, 4:18 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	CYS	Banner	27 min
May 30, 4:28 PM MDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	CYS	Kimball	47 min
May 30, 4:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Banner, Kimball	27 min
May 30, 4:52 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Kimball	38 min
May 30, 5:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CYS	Banner, Kimball	42 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.