Thunderstorm Wind, Park
- When
- June 24, 11:30 PM MST
- Where
- Park County, 21 mi NE of Meeteetse
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 44.367, -108.567
Damaging Wind in Wyoming, June 24, 2001
Large trees downed.
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 happened
The episode as NWS RIW wrote it up.
Large trees downed.
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 Riverton, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 24, 12:51 PM MST, 10 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 12:51 PM MST, 10 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY 151 PM MDT SUN JUN 24 2001 RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE REMAINS ANCHORED OVER THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE COUNTRY WITH A TROUGH OFF THE NORTHWEST COAST. THIS LEAVES WYOMING IN A CONTINUED SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE CWFA THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECT THIS ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE INTO EARLY THIS EVENING BEFORE DIMINISHING AROUND SUNSET. EVEN THOUGH DYNAMICS ARE LACKING MONDAY HEATING OF THE DAY AND SURFACE COLD FRONT OVER SOUTHERN MONTANA SHOULD BE ENOUGH FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF ISOLATED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. THE COLD FRONT IS THEN SHOWN TO MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHEASTERN FA MONDAY EVENING AND STALL ACROSS EAST CENTRAL SECTIONS TUESDAY. IN ADDITION...SHORT WAVES AND MORE MOISTURE LEAD TO A BETTER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON TUESDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN VERY WARM MOST SECTIONS MONDAY THEN DROP OFF SOME TUESDAY BUT I WILL BE ABOVE GUIDANCE VALUES. IN THE EXTENDED... CONTINUED SOUTHWEST FLOW WITH EMBEDDED SHORT WAVES COULD BRING MORE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY. AFTER THAT MRF AND ECMWF IN REASONABLE AGREEMENT IN RETROGRESSION OF RIDGE WESTWARD INTO OUR AREA. THIS SHOULD RESULT IcN MAINLY DRY AND WARM CONDITIONS THURSDAY INTO THE WEEKEND. .RIW...NONE. SULLIVAN
The radar
The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 145 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:29 UTC.
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
- Lightning Strike in South Dakota, June 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 24, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, June 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, June 24, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Maine, June 24 to 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 24, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 24, 2001
- Wildfire in Idaho, June 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Montana, June 24, 2001
More
Every storm in Wyoming in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Wyoming, June 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: 5251726.