1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Feb 7, 2:42 AM MST, 18 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY 242 AM MST THU FEB 7 2002 WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWS ALEUTIAN LOW STATIONARY AT 50N/140W WITH JET AXIS FROM BASE OF LOW NE ACROSS SOUTHERN CANADA. VORTICITY SHEARED N OF JET AXIS WITH FIRST 120 KT JET STREAK ACROSS IDAHO PANHANDLE INTO S ALBERTA. MAIN WEATHER MAKER FOR WYOMING WILL BE SECOND JET STREAK AND ASSOCIATED SHORTWAVE ROUNDING BASE OF ALEUTIAN LOW... CROSSING 140W AT 08Z. AVIATION ABOUT 6 HOURS FASTER WITH MAIN VORT MAX CROSSING ROCKIES AND PREFER SLOWER ETA SOLUTION...ESPECIALLY BASED ON RECENT MODEL PERFORMANCE WITH DOWNSTREAM SYSTEMS. WEST OF DIVIDE...SIERRA LEE-ENHANCED CLOUDS AT 10K FEET WILL BE SPREADING IN THIS MORNING. EXPECT ANY INCOMING PRECIPITATION IN WSW FLOW WILL BE WRUNG OUT OVER SIERRA RANGE UNTIL TROUGH MOVES EAST OF RANGE TONIGHT...AFTER 06Z. THIS WILL ALLOW DEEPER MOISTURE INTO WESTERN WYOMING ALONG WITH UPPER DIVERGENCE IN DIFLUENT FLOW AHEAD OF TROUGH AND LEFT FRONT SIDE OF JET STREAK. ETA SHOWS H7-H3 CONVERGENT/DIVERGENT COUPLET AND ALSO AREA OF BEST DIV-Q FORCING TRACKING NORTH ACROSS MONTANA FRIDAY MORNING. WINDOW FOR HEAVIEST SNOW AT THIS POINT APPEARS TO BE 12Z-18Z FRIDAY WHEN LOW LEVEL FLOW VEERS TO A MORE FAVORABLE WESTERLY DIRECTION AS SFC-H7 LOW PASS TO THE NORTH. H5 COLD ADVECTION ALSO DESTABILIZES ATMOSPHERE FRIDAY WITH CHANNELED VORTICITY REMAINING OVER AREA INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. DO NOT THINK WATCH WARRANTED AT THIS STAGE DUE TO DYNAMICS BYPASSING AREA...SHORT WINDOW FOR SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATIONS WITH SPEED OF SYSTEM. WILL ISSUE SPS FOR UPCOMING WINTER WEATHER. EAST OF DIVIDE...MAIN STORY TODAY WILL BE CONTINUED WINDY BEAVER RIM TO CPR AND INCREASING CLOUDS. UPPER TROUGH TO MOVE THROUGH LATE FRIDAY WITH ASSOCIATED FRONT BRINGING NORTH WINDS BY FRIDAY EVENING. MOST FAVORED AREAS FOR SNOWFALL AT THIS POINT ARE EASTERN ZONES...FROM BYG TO CPR WITH LESS ACROSS BIG HORN AND WIND RIVER BASIN. CONVECTIVE SNOW BANDS ALSO WILL BE A POSSIBILITY IN RIW AREA FRIDAY NIGHT IN UNSTABLE NORTHERLY FLOW...GOOD H7-H5 LAPSE RATES... CHANNELED VORTICITY EAST OF JET AXIS. UPPER RIDGE TO BUILD IN OVER WEEKEND FOR DRY WEATHER WITH NEXT TROUGH QUICKLY MOVING THROUGH MONTANA MONDAY. THIS ONE LOOKS TO BE MAINLY A WIND MAKER FOR WYOMING WITH MOISTURE AND DYNAMICS STAYING NORTH. RIW...NONE AEM
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong downslope winds blew some metal siding and large metal panels off Cody High School. A stop sign was blown from its mountings. The public estimated wind gusts as high as 100 mph.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Wyoming in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Wyoming, February 2002
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