Alert archive / Colorado / High Wind Warnings in 2008
High Wind Warning 7, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 1:33 PM MST | NON-TSTM WND GST 60 | Amherst, CO | BRANCHES DOWN |
| Nov 14, 2:31 PM MST | NON-TSTM WND GST 58 | Sterling, 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.
- 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
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
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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.