Wyoming, 2025

Dense Fog in Wyoming, June 3 to 4, 2025

June 3 to 4, 2025 · NWS CYS · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A long duration dense fog event occurred late evening June 3rd through the morning of JUne 4th. Fog was observed to be less than a quarter of a mile and as low as a sixteenth of a mile at times.

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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.

A long duration dense fog event occurred late evening June 3rd through the morning of JUne 4th. Fog was observed to be less than a quarter of a mile and as low as a sixteenth of a mile at times.

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 Jun 3, 5:03 PM MST, 4 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 5:03 PM MST, 4 hours 57 minutes before
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The radar

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Event by event

1 dense fog. Local standard time, as filed.

Dense Fog, South Laramie Range

When
June 3, 10:00 PM MST to June 4, 6:00 AM MST
Where
South Laramie Range forecast zone
Reported by
Department of Highways
Coordinates
41.481, -105.207 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Most WYDOT observation sites and webcams showed visibilities between a sixteenth of a mile to less than a quarter mile for several hours.

What these are

Dense Fog
Fog reducing visibility to a quarter mile or less, filed where it caused accidents or disruption.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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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: 1254908.