Wheatland Tornado

Yesterday’s tornado near Wheatland, Wyoming damaged homes, out buildings, irrigation systems and even derailed a train. Storm chasers from Tornadovideos.net were in the area and got some amazing video from 50 yards away from the storm. They ...

The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for Wheatland and central Platte County Thursday afternoon at 2:56pm. Trained weather spotters spotted a tornado to the southwest of Wheatland. The tornado was reported to touch down at approximately 3:09pm in the vicinity of hightower and Sybille Creek road.

Severe weather in Wyoming can happen anytime and last Friday was one of those times. Here in Casper we saw some big winds, some pretty good rainfall of about 1/3 of an inch and reports in the area of some heavy hail. North of  Wheatland , near Guernsey State Park, one of the rangers caught these pictures as the system passed through ...