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 8, 2:08 AM MST, 6 hours 52 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY 208 AM MST FRI FEB 8 2002 LOOKS LIKE A WILD WEATHER DAY/NIGHT IN STORE FOR WYOMING. WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWS POWERFUL VORT MAX MOVING DUE EAST ALONG SE OREGON/NEVEDA LINE WITH 140 KNOT JET ON BACK SIDE. SURFACE FRONT BLEW THROUGH BOI AT 618Z WITH SQ AND PRESSURE JUMP OF 6 MILLIBARS. BOTH MODELS CONTINUE TO TRACK THIS VORT MAX EAST THROUGH SOUTH WYOMING TODAY. BIGGEST THREAT WILL BE HIGH WINDS THAT MAY BE SHORT-LIVED BUT HEADLINERS. H7 00Z ANALYSIS NEAR TROUGH AXIS LOOKS DOWNRIGHT SCARY UPSTREAM WITH 90 KTS AT MFR. ETA MODEL SOUNDINGS SHOW HIGH WIND PROFILE WITH TROPOPAUSE FOLDING BELOW H4 WITH TROFPA AND GOOD HOOKUP...LITTLE SPEED SHEAR WITH STRONG UPPER LEVEL WINDS. IN WESTERN MOUNTAINS AND FAR WEST VALLEYS WHERE WINDS WILL COMBINE WITH SNOWFALL...WILL UPGRADE TO WINTER STORM WARNING. THOUGH SNOWFALL WILL LIKELY NOT REACH CRITERIA...STRONG WIND WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS SITUATION. EAST OF DIVIDE...INITIAL HIGH WINDS WITH FROPA TO AFFECT EAST SLOPES AND SOUTH HALF OF CWFA. HIGH WINDS NOT LIKELY TODAY IN NORTH CENTRAL WHERE VERTICAL MOTION UPWARD NORTH OF VORT MAX. GREATER LIKELIHOOD OF HIGH WINDS SHR-BYG TONIGHT AS UPPER LOW WINDS UP OVER NEB/SD. AFTER COORDINATION WITH BYG WILL EXTEND THEIR WS WATCH FOR TONIGHT SOUTH INTO OUR SIDE OF BIG HORN MTNS AND JOHNSON COUNTY. OTHER AREA OF CONCERN...AT LEAST FOR ADVISORY CRITERIA OR GREATTER SNOWFALL IN STRONG NORTHERLY FLOW IS SOUTH BIG HORN BASIN AROUND THERMOPOLIS. WILL INCLUDE THEM IN THE WINTER STORM WATCH TONIGHT AT THIS STAGE. BEYOND TONIGHT...H5 WARM ADVECTION AND DRY AIR WITH BUILDING UPPER RIDGE INTO WEST SATURDAY AM FOR END TO MTN SNOW SHOWERS...INTO EAST PM. .RIW...WINTER WEATHER WARNING TODAY WEST WY ZONES 1>3...6...7...11... 16>20. HIGH WIND WARNING TODAY SOUTH AND CENTRAL WY ZONES 4... 10...12>15...22>25. WINTER STORM WATCH TONIGHT WY NORTH CENTRAL ZONES 8...9...26>28. AEM
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Automated sensor recorded sustained winds exceeding 45 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
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: 5283260.