Alert archive / Colorado / High Wind Warnings in 2007
High Wind Warning 2, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this high wind warning at Feb 16, 2007, 9:51 AM MST for 6 counties in Colorado. It was in force for 5 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 16, 2007, 9:51 AM MST (16:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2007, 3:16 PM MST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Chaffee County, CO, Custer County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Lake County, CO, Saguache County, CO
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 12:30 PM MST | SNOW 5.8 | 2 S Leadville, CO | 3.8 INCHES SINCE 820 AM... LIGHT SNOW... 0.29 INCHES WATER CONTENT... |
| Feb 16, 12:40 PM MST | HIGH SUST WINDS 58 | 5 Nne Rosita, CO | 25 TO 41 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 58 MPH... |
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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 260 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
- 2144 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 480 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 KPUB 161651 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 951 AM MST FRI FEB 16 2007 ...HIGH WINDS POSSIBLE ALONG AND WEST OF I-25 TODAY AND THIS EVENING... .A STRONG UPPER LEVEL JET CROSSING THE MOUNTAINS OF COLORADO WILL PRODUCE WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH ALONG AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 25 AND OVER THE WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY TODAY THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE WIND GUSTS WILL BE SPORADIC AND MAY LULL AT TIMES THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL THEN DECREASE THIS EVENING. COZ058-060-078-084-085-087-162300- /O.NEW.KPUB.HW.W.0002.070216T1651Z-070217T0600Z/ WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST LAKE COUNTY ABOVE 11000 FT- EASTERN SAWATCH MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY BELOW 8500 FEET- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/MONUMENT RIDGE/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7500 FT- COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7400 FT- WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT- INCLUDING...CLIMAX...MOSQUITO PASS...INDEPENDENCE PASS... MT ELBERT...MT MASSIVE...SILVER CLIFF...WESTCLIFFE... BLACK FOREST...AIR FORCE ACADEMY...COLORADO SPRINGS...WALSENBURG 951 AM MST FRI FEB 16 2007 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM MST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM MST THIS EVENING. HIGH WINDS WILL GUST OVER 60 MPH IN WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. STRONG WIND GUSTS CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG AND WEST OF I-25 AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 24 WITH THE STRONGEST GUSTS ALONG AND EAST OF THE RAMPART RANGE IN WIND PRONE AREAS. THIS INCLUDES NORTHERN AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF COLORADO SPRINGS...MONUMENT AND THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY AND INTERSTATE 25. WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH WILL ALSO OCCUR OVER THE WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY AND OVER HUERFANO COUNTY ALONG AND WEST OF I-25 MAINLY IN THE WIND PRONE AREAS. HIGH WINDS CAPABLE OF CAUSING POWER OUTAGES AND PROPERTY DAMAGE IS POSSIBLE. STRONG CROSS WINDS WILL OCCUR ON INTERSTATE 25. THESE WINDS CAN CAUSE LIGHTWEIGHT OBJECTS TO BECOME DANGEROUS AIRBORNE PROJECTILES. HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES AND VEHICLES PULLING TRAILERS CAN BE FLIPPED BY CROSSWINDS. SECURE LIGHTWEIGHT OBJECTS. AVOID TRAVELING ON ROADS WITH CROSSWINDS. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS75 KPUB 161838 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 1138 AM MST FRI FEB 16 2007 ...HIGH WINDS POSSIBLE ALONG AND WEST OF I-25 TODAY AND THIS EVENING... .A STRONG UPPER LEVEL JET CROSSING THE MOUNTAINS OF COLORADO WILL PRODUCE WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH ALONG AND WEST OF INTERSTATE 25 AND OVER THE WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY TODAY THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE WIND GUSTS WILL BE SPORADIC AND MAY LULL AT TIMES THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL THEN DECREASE THIS EVENING. COZ058-060-161945- /O.CAN.KPUB.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070217T0600Z/ WESTERN MOSQUITO RANGE/EAST LAKE COUNTY ABOVE 11000 FT- EASTERN SAWATCH MOUNTAINS ABOVE 11000 FT- INCLUDING...CLIMAX...MOSQUITO PASS...INDEPENDENCE PASS... MT ELBERT...MT MASSIVE 1138 AM MST FRI FEB 16 2007 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS CANCELED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. WIND GUSTS HAVE DECREASED BELOW WARNING CRITERIA. $$ COZ078-084-085-087-170045- /O.CON.KPUB.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070217T0600Z/ WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY BELOW 8500 FEET- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/MONUMENT RIDGE/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7500 FT- COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7400 FT- WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT- INCLUDING...SILVER CLIFF...WESTCLIFFE...BLACK FOREST... AIR FORCE ACADEMY...COLORADO SPRINGS...WALSENBURG 1138 AM MST FRI FEB 16 2007 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM MST THIS EVENING... A HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM MST THIS EVENING. HIGH WINDS WILL GUST OVER 60 MPH IN WESTERN EL PASO COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. STRONG WIND GUSTS CAN BE EXPECTED ALONG AND WEST OF I-25 AND NORTH OF HIGHWAY 24 WITH THE STRONGEST GUSTS ALONG AND EAST OF THE RAMPART RANGE IN WIND PRONE AREAS. THIS INCLUDES NORTHERN AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF COLORADO SPRINGS... MONUMENT AND THE AIR FORCE ACADEMY AND INTERSTATE 25. WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH WILL ALSO OCCUR OVER THE WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY AND OVER HUERFANO COUNTY ALONG AND WEST OF I-25 MAINLY IN THE WIND PRONE AREAS. HIGH WINDS CAPABLE OF CAUSING POWER OUTAGES AND PROPERTY DAMAGE IS POSSIBLE. STRONG CROSS WINDS WILL OCCUR ON INTERSTATE 25. THESE WINDS CAN CAUSE LIGHTWEIGHT OBJECTS TO BECOME DANGEROUS AIRBORNE PROJECTILES. HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES AND VEHICLES PULLING TRAILERS CAN BE FLIPPED BY CROSSWINDS. SECURE LIGHTWEIGHT OBJECTS. AVOID TRAVELING ON ROADS WITH CROSSWINDS. $$
000 WWUS75 KPUB 162216 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 316 PM MST FRI FEB 16 2007 ...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED... .STRONG WIND GUSTS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND EASTERN PLAINS THROUGH THIS EVENING BUT PEAK WIND GUST SPEEDS SHOULD BE UNDER 60 MPH OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND UNDER 50 MPH OVER THE ADJACENT PLAINS. COZ078-084-085-087-162330- /O.CAN.KPUB.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-070217T0600Z/ WET MOUNTAIN VALLEY BELOW 8500 FEET- NORTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/MONUMENT RIDGE/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7500 FT- COLORADO SPRINGS VICINITY/SOUTHERN EL PASO COUNTY/RAMPART RANGE BELOW 7400 FT- WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT- INCLUDING...SILVER CLIFF...WESTCLIFFE...BLACK FOREST... AIR FORCE ACADEMY...COLORADO SPRINGS...WALSENBURG 316 PM MST FRI FEB 16 2007 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. WINDS ACROSS THE REGION HAVE DECREASED CONSIDERABLY SINCE WARNING ISSUANCE THIS MORNING AND ARE EXPECTED TO GRADUALLY DECREASE THIS EVENING. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 8:40 PM MST | Winter Storm Warning | PUB | Chaffee, Lake, Saguache | 31 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Warnings in Colorado, 2007Every high wind warning in 2007
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.