High Wind, Laramie Valley
- When
- October 11, 1:46 PM MST to 3:00 PM MST
- Where
- Laramie Valley forecast zone
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- ASOS
High Wind in Wyoming, October 11, 2008
Strong winds blew for a short time at the airport near Laramie, WY due to a strong surface pressure gradient.
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 happened
The episode as NWS CYS wrote it up.
Strong winds blew for a short time at the airport near Laramie, WY due to a strong surface pressure gradient.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heavy Snow in Montana, October 11 to 13, 2008
- Rip Current in Florida, October 11, 2008
- Tornado and Flash Flood in New Mexico, October 11, 2008
- Heavy Snow in North Dakota, October 11 to 13, 2008
- High Wind in Arizona, October 11, 2008
- Winter Storm and Heavy Snow in Utah, October 11 to 13, 2008
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Wyoming, October 11 to 12, 2008
- Winter Weather in South Dakota, October 11 to 12, 2008
- Winter Weather in Colorado, October 11 to 12, 2008
- Frost and Freeze in Oregon, October 11, 2008
- Frost and Freeze in Colorado, October 11 to 12, 2008
- Frost and Freeze in California, October 11, 2008
More
Every storm in Wyoming in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Wyoming, October 2008
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 130840.