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High Wind Warning 7, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

November 14, 20084 counties in Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this high wind warning at Nov 14, 2008, 1:30 PM MST for 4 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
Nov 14, 2008, 1:30 PM MST (20:30 UTC)
Expired
Nov 14, 2008, 6:00 PM MST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

Counties Logan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Nov 14, 1:33 PM MSTNON-TSTM WND GST 60Amherst, COBRANCHES DOWN
Nov 14, 2:31 PM MSTNON-TSTM WND GST 58Sterling, 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 85 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2008-11-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2008-11-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
580 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
132 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
277 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS75 KBOU 142030
NPWBOU

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
130 PM MST FRI NOV 14 2008

...STRONG WINDS ON THE FAR NORTHEASTERN PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON...

COZ048>051-150100-
/O.NEW.KBOU.HW.W.0007.081114T2030Z-081115T0100Z/
LOGAN COUNTY-WASHINGTON COUNTY-SEDGWICK COUNTY-PHILLIPS COUNTY-
INCLUDING...CROOK...MERINO...STERLING...PEETZ...AKRON...COPE...
LAST CHANCE...OTIS...JULESBURG...OVID...SEDGWICK...AMHERST...
HAXTUN...HOLYOKE
130 PM MST FRI NOV 14 2008

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. 

STRONG PRESSURE DIFFERENCES ACROSS NORTHEAST COLORADO THIS
AFTERNOON ARE COMBINING WITH STRONG FLOW ABOVE THE SURFACE TO
PRODUCE STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS. NORTHWEST WINDS AT 35 TO 45 MPH
WITH GUSTS UP TO 65 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. 

DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE CAUTION WHILE DRIVING
IN CROSSWINDS. 

REMEMBER...A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS THAT STRONG AND POTENTIALLY
DAMAGING WINDS ARE EITHER OCCURRING OR HIGHLY LIKELY.

$$
DANKERS
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS75 KBOU 150111
NPWBOU

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO
611 PM MST FRI NOV 14 2008

COZ048>051-150215-
/O.EXP.KBOU.HW.W.0007.000000T0000Z-081115T0100Z/
LOGAN COUNTY-WASHINGTON COUNTY-SEDGWICK COUNTY-PHILLIPS COUNTY-
INCLUDING...CROOK...MERINO...STERLING...PEETZ...AKRON...COPE...
LAST CHANCE...OTIS...JULESBURG...OVID...SEDGWICK...AMHERST...
HAXTUN...HOLYOKE
611 PM MST FRI NOV 14 2008

...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS EXPIRED...

THE HIGH WIND WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. 

WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE THIS EVENING.

PEAK WIND GUSTS THIS AFTERNOON INCLUDED 62 MPH AT AKRON...60 MPH AT
AMHERST...AND 58 MPH IN STERLING.

$$

GIMMESTAD

Nearby

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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.