Flood Watch
NWS Riverton WY ยท US
Details
Flood Watch In Effect Through Sunday Afternoon
- Event
- Flood Watch
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Future
- Severity
- Severe
- Certainty
- Possible
- Response
- Prepare
Description
What
Flash flooding caused by moderate to heavy rainfall is possible, especially in terrain and poor drainage areas.
Where
Northwest Wyoming, including Yellowstone National Park.
When
Through Sunday afternoon.
Impacts
Heavy rainfall may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations. Flooding may occur in poor drainage areas and around steep terrain.
Additional details
- A slow moving weather system will move across Wyoming today through Sunday and bring rounds of showers and thunderstorms to the region, especially northern Wyoming. Any shower or thunderstorm could produce moderate to heavy rainfall across the Watch Area. - http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Instructions
You should monitor later forecasts and be prepared to take action should Flash Flood Warnings be issued.
Affected areas
- Yellowstone National Park
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Riverton WY
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~27s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2TYTQJKMY1QX51Z5J9ET3YT
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.e9cef46381c72b6f57421771f0322e97248911b0.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Riverton WY
- AWIPS ID
- CAPRIW
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.2033
- WMO heading
- XOUS55
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 55
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | FFA |
| NationalWeatherService | FAA |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | FFARIW |
| WMOidentifier | WGUS65 KRIW 181910 |
| NWSheadline | FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.EXA.KRIW.FA.A.0006.000000T0000Z-260921T0000Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-20T18:00:00-06:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Yellowstone National Park
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 016043 |
| SAME | 056029 |
| SAME | 056039 |
| SAME | 030031 |
| UGC | WYZ001 |