Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
Serving the Big Horn Basin for over 100 years
WORLAND – Be prepared this weekend if you are planning on doing any outdoor activities because Mother Nature has once again decided to bless the area with more showers and isolated thunderstorms.
WORLAND – Be prepared this weekend if you are planning on doing any outdoor activities because Mother Nature has once again decided to bless the area with more showers and isolated thunderstorms.
The amount of precipitation the storms could drop has caused the National Weather Service in Riverton to generate a flood watch for most of the Big Horn Basin from 6 p.m. Saturday - 6 p.m. Sunday.
National Weather Service meteorologist Micah Hulme said, the Big Horn Mountains could receive up to one and a half inches of rain and the Big Horn Basin could receive up to an inch of rain over the weekend, with the main storms hitting Saturday and Saturday night. He said that the storms will mainly just contain rain and that at this time there is no indication of the isolated thunderstorms being severe.
The flood watch states, “Saturday and Saturday night ... Showers and thunderstorms will become widespread by the afternoon and continue through the overnight hours. Locally heavy rain will be the main threat, especially east of the Divide. Areas of flooding rain could occur Saturday night. Sunday ... Showers with isolated thunderstorms, with locally heavy rain, will continue through the day. Precipitation will end by late Sunday evening.”
THURSDAY WEATHER
Thunderstorms Thursday evening caused a tornado warning to be issued for parts of Hot Springs, Big Horn and Washakie County when a funnel cloud was seen in the vicinity of the Gooseberry Road or Highway 431. According to Hulme, the funnel cloud never touched down.
A wildfire in the Devil’s Slide area, about 14 miles southeast of Worland was also caused by lightning Thursday afternoon. According to BLM (Bureau of Land Management) public affairs Sarah Beckwith The fire burned 124 acres of grass and sagebrush located on BLM land and was fought by Washakie fire crews, BLM fire crews and Bighorn National Forest crews. It was considered 100 percent contained Friday.
Thursday’s storm brought .24 inches of precipitation to Worland, according to the NWS. For June, Worland has received .52 inches of rain, below the average of .91 inches. Total precipitation for the year is at 4.8 inches of precipitation, up from the normal range of 4.07 inches.
