3 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 19, 8:30 PM MST, 0 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
830 PM MST TUE MAR 19 2002
WINDS HAVE BEEN HOWLING AT ARLINGTON THIS EVENING WITH
MBW PROFILER CONTINUING TO SHOW INCREASE IN LOWER GATES. INTERSTATE
80 AND U.S. 30 HAVE BEEN CLOSED. LATEST MESO-ETA CONFIRMS THIS TREND
WILL CONTINUE OVERNIGHT IN 700 MB FLOW AND SPREAD TO LARAMIE RANGE
AND ITS EASTERN SLOPES. LOCAL HIGH WIND PROGRAM AS WELL AS PROGGED
TIGHTENING 850/700 MB HEIGHT FIELDS ALSO INDICATE THREAT WILL
PERSIST AND WORTHY OF HIGHLITES.
.CYS...
WY...HI WIND WARNG TNGT/WED SNOWY RANGE & NORTH CARBON CNTY ZNS
62..63.
HI WIND WATCH WED LARAMIE RANGE & PLATTE CNTY ZNS 64..66..67.
NE...NONE.
COX3 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong winds raked much of southeast Wyoming, especially over and near the mountains.Gusts as high as 78 mph were recorded on Interstate 80 near Arlington, WY, while gusts to68 mph were recorded on Interstate 25 near Chugwater, WY.
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, March 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: 5284727, 5284728, 5284729.