Funnel Cloud, Fremont
- When
- September 14, 2:59 PM MST
- Where
- Fremont County, Lander
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 43.041, -108.630 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Funnel Cloud in Wyoming, September 14, 2001
Funnel cloud was reported just south of Lander.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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.
Funnel cloud was reported just south of Lander.
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 Sep 14, 2:00 PM MST, 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 14, 2:00 PM MST, 59 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY 300 PM MDT FRI SEP 14 2001 CANADIAN COLD FRONT THROUGH FORECAST AREA EAST OF DIVIDE AND GOING THROUGH SW THROUGH SOUTH PASS ACROSS SWEETWATER COUNTY WITH WIDESPREAD CLOUD COVER AND LIGHT PRECIPITATION BEHIND FRONT...ALONG WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS FIRING OFF OF HIGHER TERRAIN AND MOVING THROUGH BASIN. COLDER TEMPERATURES WITH STRONGER FRONT AND MORE WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION THAN PREVIOUS FORECAST. EXPECT UPPER SHORT WAVE TROUGH EXTENDING SW FROM UPPER LOW CENTER OVER E MT TO E CNTRL ID TO PASS THROUGH FORECAST AREA WITH WEAK RIDGING ALOFT OVER AREA BY MID MORNING SAT ENDING WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION EVENT AROUND NOON. EXPECT WEAK RIDGE TO KEEP IT DRY WITH COLDER NIGHTS AND WARMER DAYS SAT NIGHT THROUGH SUN NIGHT THEN BRING IN NEXT UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE TROUGH AND PACIFIC FRONT MONDAY FOLLOWED BY CANADIAN FRONT MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY. MRF SHOWING MILD AND DRY PERIOD WED THROUGH FRI IN EXTENDED AND CAN SEE NO REASON DEVIATE. WILL MENTION SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES IN MOUNTAINS EAST OF DIVIDE ABOVE 9000 TONIGHT. .RIW...NONE C.BAKER
The radar
The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 13 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:58 UTC.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tropical Storm and Flood in Florida, September 14 to 15, 2001
- Tropical Storm in Florida, September 14 to 15, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Florida, September 14 to 15, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Florida, September 14, 2001
- Tornadoes in Florida, September 14, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Florida, September 14, 2001
- Tropical Storm in Florida, September 14 to 15, 2001
- Hail and Heavy Rain in Nebraska, September 14, 2001
- Flash Flood in Florida, September 14, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, September 14, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, September 14, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, September 14, 2001
More
Every storm in Wyoming in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Wyoming, September 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: 5269635.