Thunderstorm Wind, Laramie
- When
- July 8, 5:37 PM MST
- Where
- Laramie County, 13 mi W of Cheyenne
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 41.133, -105.067
Damaging Wind in Wyoming, July 8, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 8, 1:40 PM MST, 3 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 1:40 PM MST, 3 hours 57 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION TO WATCH EXPIRATION DATA BELOW NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 240 PM MDT SUN JUL 8 2001 AS YET STORMS ON 88D BEHAVING THEMSELVES...BUT BEST DYNAMICS IS YET TO COME. 18 UTC/NOON MESO-ETA LOOKED VERY GOOD WITH VORTICITY LOBE FROM RIW AREA TO SOUTHWEST CORNER OF WY...TRIGGERING STORMS THAT AREA. LOBE EXTENDED EAST-SOUTHEASTWARD...POSSIBLY TRIGGERING STORMS OVER NORTH LARAMIE RANGE. ALSO DISTURBANCE OVER CENTRAL CO. MESO-ETA AT 21 UTC HAS 350+K THETA-E AXIS EXTENDING NORTHWEST/ SOUTHEAST FROM CYS WITH WEAKER LOBE NORTHWARD INTO GCC AREA. STORMS SO FAR DEFINITELY MULTI-CELLULAR. APPEARS TRIGGER FOR THIS ROUND WILL MOVE EAST OF CWA AROUND 06 UTC/MIDNIGHT. 18 UTC MESO-ETA CONTINUES IDEA OF ANOTHER STRENGTHENING CENTER APPROACHING WY/CO BORDER SOUTH OF LAR AT 12 UTC. FEATURE DOESN/T LIFT NORTH OF CWA UNTIL 00 UTC...SO WILL NEED POSSIBILITY LATE NIGHT/MORNING SHOWERS PLUS THREAT ISOLATED T-STORMS...DESPITE LACK OF QPF ON MESO-ETA FOR THOSE TIME PERIODS. MODELS CONTINUE IDEA OF LONG/WAVE TROUGH/500 MB LOW MOVING INTO GREAT BASIN/MONTANA LATER PERIODS...WHICH AT LEAST WILL ALTER PATTERN SOMEWHAT. WILL GO WITH LIKELY POPS THROUGH MONDAY EVENING...THEN SCATTERED TYPE ONES. TEMPS GUIDANCE GETTING MORE IN SYNC...ONLY A HAIR TOO COOL WITH MAXS/MINS. .EXTENDED DISCUSSION... STRONG UPPER RIDGE WILL CONTINUE OVER THE AREA WITH THE CENTER OF THE HIGH OVER NORTHERN TEXAS. THE HIGH PRESSURE CENTER RETROGRADES INTO THE DESERT SOUTHWEST THROUGH THE PERIOD...LEAVING THE CWA IN SW FLOW ALOFT. SEVERAL SHORT-WAVES WILL MOVE AROUND THE HIGH PRESSURE AND ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA THROUGH THE PERIOD. THIS COMBINED WITH MONSOONAL MOISTURE WILL KEEP THE CWA IN A CHANCE OF DAILY THUNDERSTORMS. STILL NO MAJOR FRONTS ON THE HORIZON...SO PERSISTENCE RULES IN TEMPERATURE FORECAST. .CYS... WY...SVR TSTM WATCH 529 UNTIL 09/03 UTC ZONES 59..60..66>70. NE...SVR TSTM WATCH 529 UNTIL 09/03 UTC ZONES 1>3..19>21..54..55. COX
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, July 8, 2001
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, July 8, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Illinois, July 8 to 9, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, July 8, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Virginia, July 8, 2001
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 8, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in West Virginia, July 8 to 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, July 8, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Indiana, July 8, 2001
- Lightning Strikes in Indiana, July 8, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 8, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 8, 2001
More
Every storm in Wyoming in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Wyoming, July 2001
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5258054.