Funnel Cloud, Washakie
- When
- June 16, 3:43 PM MST
- Where
- Washakie County, 13 mi SSE of Ten Sleep
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 43.905, -107.683 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Funnel Cloud in Wyoming, June 16, 2003
1 funnel cloud, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 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 16, 1:12 PM MST, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 1:12 PM MST, 2 hours 31 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY 212 PM MDT MON JUN 16 2003 .TODAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT... SCATTERED TSTMS DEVELOPING ACROSS CENTRAL WYOMING...NEAR THE DIVIDE. ALSO...ISOLD TSTMS OVER THE BIG HORNS IN JOHNSON CO. THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN RESPONSE TO GOOD INSTABILITY...CAPE 1000 TO 2000 J/KG AND SOME WEAK SHORT WAVE ENERGY. ALSO...ISOLD TSTMS OVER THE BIG HORNS IN JOHNSON CO. LOOKS LIKE SCATTERED TSTMS ACROSS MUCH OF THE CWFA THIS EVENING...THEN ISOLD POPS AFTER MIDNIGHT. LIKE THE QPF AMOUNTS ON THE ETA. THE GFS IS HAVING CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK PROBLEMS OVER CENTRAL WY WITH THE AREAL COVERAGE FOR TONIGHT. SCATTERED AFTN AND EVE POPS ACROSS MUCH OF THE CWFA AGAIN ON TUESDAY DUE TO SHALLOW UPLSOPE FLOW AND SOME VERTICAL MOTION. THEN UPPER RIDGE BUILDS OVER AREA WITH UPSLOPE WEAKENING ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY SO MAINLY ISOLD POPS LOOKS GOOD. MC .FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY... RATHER GOOD CONSISTENCY IN THE LONG RANGE MODELS FOR THU-MON. STILL EXPECTING THE WARMTH THU/FRI BEFORE A TROF/COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH SAT WITH ANOTHER WAVE SUNDAY. W FLOW PROGD NEXT MON WITH LOW CHANCE OF PM TSRA IN THE NW MTNS. COOLING SAT/SUN WITH SOME WARMING MON. .RIW...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 16, 5:00 AM MST, 10 hours 43 minutes before
WYZ001>020-022>030-171200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RIVERTON WY 600 AM MDT MON JUN 16 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP TODAY THROUGH THIS EVENING ACROSS MUCH OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL WYOMING. SMALL HAIL ALONG WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL BE THE MAIN FEATURES WITH THESE STORMS. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY OCCUR OVER AND EAST OF THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN OCCUR THROUGHOUT MUCH OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL WYOMING TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL. OTHERWISE THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT TO REPORT HAIL SIZE AND RAINFALL AMOUNTS.
The radar
The Riverton/Lander radar (KRIW), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:44 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
- Flash Flooding and Hail in North Carolina, June 16, 2003
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 16, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Wyoming, June 16, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Georgia, June 16 to 19, 2003
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, June 16, 2003
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 16, 2003
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 16, 2003
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, June 16, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Ohio, June 16, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Indiana, June 16, 2003
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 16, 2003
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, June 16, 2003
More
Every storm in Wyoming in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Wyoming, June 2003
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: 5366551.