Thunderstorm Wind, Albany
- When
- July 30, 12:33 PM MST
- Where
- Albany County, Laramie Breese Arpt
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 41.317, -105.667
Dry microburst
Damaging Wind in Wyoming, July 30, 2004
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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 Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 30, 8:39 AM MST, 3 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 8:39 AM MST, 3 hours 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 939 AM MDT FRI JUL 30 2004 .SHORT TERM...FORECAST UPDATED MAINLY TO REDUCE CLOUD COVER ACROSS THE AREA. WITH LIGHT WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS BLOWING AT MOST LOCATIONS...IT APPEARS THAT DEW POINTS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE AS THE DAY WEARS ON. WINDS WILL MAKE THE DIURNAL CHANGE TO A SOUTHEAST DIRECTION THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE PLAINS...BUT WILL REMAIN LIGHT. THEREFORE ANY THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ISOLATED. .CYS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WY...NONE. NE...NONE. POMEROY
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 30, 9:51 AM MST, 2 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 1051 AM MDT FRI JUL 30 2004 NEZ001>003-019>021-054-055-WYZ059>070-311130- BANNER-BOX BUTTE-CHEYENNE-CHEYENNE FOOTHILLS-CONVERSE-DAWES-GOSHEN- KIMBALL-LARAMIE RANGE-LARAMIE VALLEY-MORRILL-NIOBRARA-NORTH CARBON- NORTH LARAMIE RANGE-PINE BLUFFS-PLATTE-SCOTTS BLUFF-SIOUX- SNOWY RANGE-SOUTHWEST CARBON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALLIANCE...CHADRON...CHEYENNE...DOUGLAS... KIMBALL...LARAMIE...LUSK...RAWLINS...SCOTTSBLUFF...SIDNEY... TORRINGTON AND WHEATLAND 1051 AM MDT FRI JUL 30 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEASTERN WYOMING AND THE WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... SOUTH OF A LINE FROM RAWLINS TO ALLIANCE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 55 MPH AND SMALL HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A FEW AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE MOST DAYS ACROSS SOUTHERN CARBON AND SOUTHERN ALBANY COUNTIES OF WYOMING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 30, 8:49 AM MST, 3 hours 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY
949 AM MDT FRI JUL 30 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0815 PM TSTM WND GST 17 S ALLIANCE 41.85N 102.87W
07/29/2004 60 MPH MORRILL NE TRAINED SPOTTER
ALSO RECEIVED 3/4 INCH HAIL. ELEMENTS OBSERVED BETWEEN 8
AND 830 PM.
1115 PM HAIL 10 SE SIDNEY 41.03N 102.83W
07/29/2004 0.75 INCH CHEYENNE NE OTHER FEDERAL
ELEMENT OBSERVED 1115 TO 1120 PM.
&&
DEALThe radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 74 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:31 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Indiana, July 30, 2004
- Rip Current in Florida, July 30, 2004
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Indiana, July 30, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, July 30, 2004
- Damaging Winds in Montana, July 30, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Colorado, July 30, 2004
- Hail in Oklahoma, July 30, 2004
- Hail in Colorado, July 30, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Texas, July 30, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, July 30, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, July 30, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, July 30, 2004
More
Every storm in Wyoming in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Wyoming, July 2004
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: 5420120.