High Wind — Niobrara County, Wyoming

2019-10-20 · Niobrara County, Wyoming

Event narrative

Wyoming Department of Transportation sensor along US 20 seven miles west-northwest of Van Tassel measured the reported wind gust.

Wider weather episode

A deepening low pressure system and frontal boundary moved across the region producing widespread high winds across southeastern Wyoming with light snowfall while in Carbon County blizzard conditions were reported by Arlington stopping traffic for a period of time. Heavy snow was reported in the mountain ranges in the area with close to two feet in the highest spots of the Snowy Range. A hunter out in the Sierra Madre Range went missing during the storm and his body has yet to be recovered.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 858605. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.