Alert archive / Colorado / High Wind Warnings in 2008
High Wind Warning 8, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this high wind warning at Nov 30, 2008, 4:58 AM MST for 6 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Nov 30, 2008, 6:00 AM MST. It was in force for 11 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 30, 2008, 4:58 AM MST (11:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 30, 2008, 6:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Nov 30, 2008, 5:00 PM MST
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Counties Logan County, CO, Morgan County, CO, Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO, Washington County, CO, Weld County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:58 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 00:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 1596 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 110 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 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 301158 NPWBOU URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 458 AM MST SUN NOV 30 2008 COZ042-044-048>051-302000- /O.NEW.KBOU.HW.W.0008.081130T1300Z-081201T0000Z/ NORTHEAST WELD COUNTY-MORGAN COUNTY-LOGAN COUNTY- WASHINGTON COUNTY-SEDGWICK COUNTY-PHILLIPS COUNTY- INCLUDING...BRIGGSDALE...GROVER...PAWNEE BUTTES...RAYMER... STONEHAM...BRUSH...FORT MORGAN...GOODRICH...WIGGINS...CROOK... MERINO...STERLING...PEETZ...AKRON...COPE...LAST CHANCE...OTIS... JULESBURG...OVID...SEDGWICK...AMHERST...HAXTUN...HOLYOKE 458 AM MST SUN NOV 30 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE ACROSS NORTHEASTERN COLORADO THIS MORNING. SPEEDS OF 30 TO 45 MPH WILL BE COMMON...WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 60 MPH. THE WINDS WILL DECREASE AROUND SUNSET. REMEMBER...A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS THAT STRONG AND POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WINDS ARE EITHER OCCURRING OR HIGHLY LIKELY. RESIDENTS SHOULD SECURE LOOSE OUTDOOR ITEMS. DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE OR LIGHTWEIGHT VEHICLES SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION OR CONSIDER DELAYING TRAVEL DURING THE PERIOD OF STRONGEST WINDS THIS AFTERNOON. THE HIGHWAYS WITH THE STRONGEST CROSSWINDS TODAY WILL BE INTERSTATE 76 FROM FORT MORGAN TO NEBRASKA AS WELL AS INTERSTATE 80 ACROSS THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. $$ GIMMESTAD
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS75 KBOU 302008 NPWBOU URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 108 PM MST SUN NOV 30 2008 COZ042-044-048>051-010000- /O.CON.KBOU.HW.W.0008.000000T0000Z-081201T0000Z/ NORTHEAST WELD COUNTY-MORGAN COUNTY-LOGAN COUNTY- WASHINGTON COUNTY-SEDGWICK COUNTY-PHILLIPS COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BRIGGSDALE...GROVER...PAWNEE BUTTES... RAYMER...STONEHAM...BRUSH...FORT MORGAN...GOODRICH...WIGGINS... CROOK...MERINO...STERLING...PEETZ...AKRON...COPE...LAST CHANCE... OTIS...JULESBURG...OVID...SEDGWICK...AMHERST...HAXTUN...HOLYOKE 108 PM MST SUN NOV 30 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... A HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHEASTERN COLORADO THIS AFTERNOON. SPEEDS OF 30 TO 45 MPH WILL BE COMMON...WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 60 MPH. THE WINDS WILL DECREASE AROUND SUNSET. REMEMBER...A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS THAT STRONG AND POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WINDS ARE EITHER OCCURRING OR HIGHLY LIKELY. RESIDENTS SHOULD SECURE LOOSE OUTDOOR ITEMS. DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE OR LIGHTWEIGHT VEHICLES SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION OR CONSIDER DELAYING TRAVEL DURING THE PERIOD OF STRONGEST WINDS THIS AFTERNOON. THE HIGHWAYS WITH THE STRONGEST CROSSWINDS TODAY WILL BE INTERSTATE 76 FROM FORT MORGAN TO NEBRASKA AS WELL AS INTERSTATE 80 ACROSS THE NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. $$
000 WWUS75 KBOU 010002 NPWBOU URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 502 PM MST SUN NOV 30 2008 COZ042-044-048>051-010115- /O.EXP.KBOU.HW.W.0008.000000T0000Z-081201T0000Z/ NORTHEAST WELD COUNTY-MORGAN COUNTY-LOGAN COUNTY- WASHINGTON COUNTY-SEDGWICK COUNTY-PHILLIPS COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BRIGGSDALE...GROVER...PAWNEE BUTTES... RAYMER...STONEHAM...BRUSH...FORT MORGAN...GOODRICH...WIGGINS... CROOK...MERINO...STERLING...PEETZ...AKRON...COPE...LAST CHANCE... OTIS...JULESBURG...OVID...SEDGWICK...AMHERST...HAXTUN...HOLYOKE 502 PM MST SUN NOV 30 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING HAS EXPIRED... THE HIGH WIND WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH A FEW GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL CONTINUE EARLY THIS EVENING BEFORE DECREASING. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 11:03 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOU | Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert | 9 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.