Strong winds occurred in the Arlington, WY. area for a short time.
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 episode as NWS CYS wrote it up.
Strong winds occurred in the Arlington, WY. area for a short time.
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 Feb 2, 2:40 AM MST, 6 hours 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 240 AM MST MON FEB 2 2009 .SHORT TERM...TODAY THRU TUE NIGHT...INITIAL BATCH OF MID/HIGH CLDS OVER REGION LOOKS TO BE SHIFTING SEWD OUT OF AREA BY SUNRISE. HOWEVER THERE ARE MORE CLDS UPSTREAM AS MSTR CONTS TO STREAM OVER THE TOP OF THE UPPER RIDGE ALONG THE W COAST AND DOWN INTO THE AREA IN NW FLOW. MODELS SHOW SOME OF THIS MSTR INTERACTING WITH THE WARM FRONT SLOLY SHIFTG EWD OUT OF THE REGION...PRODUCING MORE CLDS AND PERHAPS A FEW FLURRIES ACROSS THE NERN PART OF THE CWA TNGT. TEMPS HAVE ALREADY RECOVERED IN PARTS OF SE WY WHERE WINDS HAVE KICKED IN...AND EXPECT THE WARMING TO SPREAD OF THE MOST OF THE AREA EXCEPT THE FAR E TODAY. A USUAL WINDY DAY IN SE WY...BUT IT APPEARS THAT GUSTS SHLD STAY BELOW WRNG CRITERIA...ALTHO THE WINDIEST SPOTS WILL LIKELY BRIEFLY HIT GUSTS OF 55 TO 60 MPH. WINDS DECREASE TUE INTO TUE NIGHT AS THE STRONG UPPER RIDGE CONTS TO SHIFT E. TEMPS RISE A BIT MORE ON TUE ESPCLY IN SE WY/SRN HALF OF PNHNDL. .LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... WEDNESDAY...HIGH AMPLITUDE RIDGE ALOFT PREVAILS. DRY AND MILD WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 40S TO MID 60S WITH 1000-500 MB THICKNESSES NEAR 5580 METERS. THURSDAY...RIDGE AXIS ALOFT MOVES EAST INTO THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS STATES. STILL QUITE MILD WITH HIGHS MAINLY IN THE 50S WITH 1000-500 MB THICKNESSES NEAR 5580 METERS. FRIDAY...COOLER BUT STILL MILD IN THE WAKE OF THE SHORTWAVE TROUGH ALOFT AND COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE. ISOLATED OROGRAPHIC SNOW SHOWERS ACROSS THE SNOWY RANGE IN MOIST WEST FLOW ALOFT. SATURDAY...STILL COOLER AS 1000-500 MB THICKNESSES FALL TO 5460 METERS. SUNDAY...NON DESCRIPT WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT PREVAILS. HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE 40S WITH 1000-500 MB THICKNESSES NEAR 5460 METERS. RUBIN && .AVIATION...MID/HIGH CLDS AT TIMES OVER MUCH OF THE AREA...WITH CIGS AOA 8K. && .CYS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WY...NONE. NE...NONE. && LONG TERM....RUBIN
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 432 AM MST MON FEB 2 2009 WYZ059>070-031230- CONVERSE-NIOBRARA-SOUTHWEST CARBON-NORTH CARBON-SNOWY RANGE- NORTH LARAMIE RANGE-LARAMIE VALLEY-LARAMIE RANGE-PLATTE-GOSHEN- CHEYENNE FOOTHILLS-PINE BLUFFS- 432 AM MST MON FEB 2 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SOME GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH WILL BLOW ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WYOMING TODAY. LOCAL GUSTS IN THE WINDIEST SPOTS WILL REACH AROUND 55 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. && THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGIC...AND CLIMATE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/CHEYENNE NEZ001>003-019>021-054-055-031230- SIOUX-DAWES-BOX BUTTE-SCOTTS BLUFF-BANNER-MORRILL-KIMBALL- CHEYENNE- 432 AM MST MON FEB 2 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. && THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGIC...AND CLIMATE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/CHEYENNE
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 608 AM MST MON FEB 2 2009 WYZ062-063-066-067-069-021800- NORTH CARBON-SNOWY RANGE-LARAMIE RANGE-PLATTE-CHEYENNE FOOTHILLS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HANNA...MEDICINE BOW...CENTENNIAL... BUFORD...HORSE CREEK...WHEATLAND...GUERNSEY...CHEYENNE 608 AM MST MON FEB 2 2009 ...WATCH FOR STRONG WINDS THIS MORNING ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING... SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 55 MPH WILL OCCUR THIS MORNING AT WIND PRONE LOCATIONS SUCH AS ARLINGTON ALONG INTERSTATE 80 IN EASTERN CARBON COUNTY...AT VEDAUWOO ALONG THE INTERSTATE 80 SUMMIT BETWEEN CHEYENNE AND LARAMIE AND AT BORDEAUX ALONG INTERSTATE 25 IN SOUTHERN PLATTE COUNTY. IF YOU ARE DRIVING THIS MORNING...WATCH FOR THESE STRONG WINDS AND REDUCE YOUR SPEED ACCORDINGLY. RUBIN
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 926 AM MST MON FEB 2 2009 WYZ062-063-021800- NORTH CARBON-SNOWY RANGE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...HANNA...MEDICINE BOW...CENTENNIAL 926 AM MST MON FEB 2 2009 ...VERY STRONG WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS THIS MORNING ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING... VERY STRONG WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 58 MPH WILL OCCUR THIS MORNING AT WIND PRONE LOCATIONS SUCH AS ARLINGTON ALONG INTERSTATE 80 IN EASTERN CARBON COUNTY. THESE CONDITIONS HAVE BRIEFLY MET HIGH WIND CRITERIA BUT ARE ANTICIPATED TO DECREASE THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING AS THE PRESSURE GRADIENT RELAXES. EXPECT THE WINDS TO DECREASE AROUND 30 TO 40 MPH WITH WIND GUST UP TO 50 MPH IN THE LATE MORNING. IF YOU ARE DRIVING THIS MORNING...WATCH FOR THESE STRONG WINDS AND REDUCE YOUR SPEED ACCORDINGLY. WYZ066-067-069-021800- LARAMIE RANGE-PLATTE-CHEYENNE FOOTHILLS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BUFORD...HORSE CREEK...WHEATLAND... GUERNSEY...CHEYENNE 926 AM MST MON FEB 2 2009 ...STRONG WEST WINDS THIS MORNING ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING... SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 55 MPH WILL OCCUR THIS MORNING AT WIND PRONE LOCATIONS SUCH AS VEDAUWOO ALONG THE INTERSTATE 80 SUMMIT BETWEEN CHEYENNE AND LARAMIE AND AT BORDEAUX ALONG INTERSTATE 25 IN SOUTHERN PLATTE COUNTY. IF YOU ARE DRIVING THIS MORNING...WATCH FOR THESE STRONG WINDS AND REDUCE YOUR SPEED ACCORDINGLY.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several gusts in excess of 60 mph were recorded along Interstate 80 near Arlington, WY.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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