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High Wind Watch 37, NWS Cheyenne, WY
NWS Cheyenne, WY issued this high wind watch at Sep 13, 2026, 12:54 AM MDT for 4 counties in Wyoming. It took effect at Sep 14, 2026, 6:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 13, 2026, 12:54 AM MDT (06:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 14, 2026, 6:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2026, 5:29 AM MDT
- In force
- 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 06:54 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
Grand Junction, CO (KGJT), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 378 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
- 732 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2518 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 Sep 12, 11:35 PM MDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 11:35 PM MDT, 1 hour 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 1:07 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | CYS | Albany, Carbon, Converse, Goshen, Niobrara, Platte | 12 hr |
| Sep 13, 12:57 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | CYS | Albany, Carbon, Converse, Goshen, Niobrara, Platte | 31 hr |
| Sep 13, 2:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Platte | 28 min |
| Sep 13, 2:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Goshen | 28 min |
| Sep 13, 3:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Goshen | 27 min |
| Sep 13, 4:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Goshen | 36 min |
| Sep 13, 5:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Goshen | 36 min |
| Sep 13, 3:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Scotts Bluff | 47 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.