Alert archive / Colorado / High Wind Warnings in 2007
High Wind Warning 3, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this high wind warning at Feb 24, 2007, 8:30 AM MST for 7 counties in Colorado. It was in force for 3 hr. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2007, 8:30 AM MST (15:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2007, 11:49 AM MST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Counties Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Broomfield County, CO, Denver County, CO, Douglas County, CO, Larimer County, CO, Weld County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 8:37 AM MST | SNOW 5 | 1 N Strasburg, CO | |
| Feb 24, 9:30 AM MST | HEAVY SNOW 6.1 | Centennial, CO |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 132 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 616 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS75 KBOU 241530 NPWBOU URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 830 AM MST SAT FEB 24 2007 COZ038-040-043-242300- /O.NEW.KBOU.HW.W.0003.070224T1530Z-070224T2300Z/ LARIMER COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/NORTHWEST WELD COUNTY- NORTH DOUGLAS COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/DENVER/WEST ADAMS AND ARAPAHOE COUNTIES/EAST BROOMFIELD COUNTY- CENTRAL AND SOUTH WELD COUNTY- INCLUDING...FORT COLLINS...HEREFORD...LOVELAND...NUNN...AURORA... BRIGHTON...CITY OF DENVER...DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT... HIGHLANDS RANCH...LITTLETON...PARKER...EATON...FORT LUPTON... GREELEY...ROGGEN 830 AM MST SAT FEB 24 2007 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG NORTH AND NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP THIS MORNING OVER THE FRONT RANGE BEHIND AN INTENSE STORM MOVING INTO KANSAS. NORTHWEST WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME GUSTS TO 60 MPH. THE STRONG WINDS WILL CAUSE SOME BLOWING SNOW IN AREAS OF FAR SOUTHEASTERN METRO AREA WHERE SOME SNOW ACCUMULATION OCCURRED EARLIER. THE WINDS WILL SLOWLY ABATE LATER THIS AFTERNOON. REMEMBER...A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS THAT STRONG AND POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WINDS ARE EITHER OCCURRING OR HIGHLY LIKELY. $$ 046
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS75 KBOU 241849 NPWBOU URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1149 AM MST SAT FEB 24 2007 COZ038-040-043-242000- /O.CAN.KBOU.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070224T2300Z/ LARIMER COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/NORTHWEST WELD COUNTY- NORTH DOUGLAS COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/DENVER/WEST ADAMS AND ARAPAHOE COUNTIES/EAST BROOMFIELD COUNTY- CENTRAL AND SOUTH WELD COUNTY- INCLUDING...FORT COLLINS...HEREFORD...LOVELAND...NUNN...AURORA... BRIGHTON...CITY OF DENVER...DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT... HIGHLANDS RANCH...LITTLETON...PARKER...EATON...FORT LUPTON... GREELEY...ROGGEN 1149 AM MST SAT FEB 24 2007 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. WINDS ACROSS THE FRONT RANGE HAVE DECREASED...THEREFORE THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...SOME AREAS OF WELD COUNTY NEAR THE WYOMING BORDER WILL STILL EXPERIENCE NORTH WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. $$
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.