Alert archive / Colorado / High Wind Warnings in 2009
High Wind Warning 13, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this high wind warning at Jan 12, 2009, 4:13 AM MST for 6 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jan 12, 2009, 8:00 AM MST. It was in force for 7 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
- Jan 12, 2009, 4:13 AM MST (11:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 12, 2009, 8:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Jan 12, 2009, 2:58 PM MST
- In force
- 7 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 11:16 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, 11.2 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
- 2337 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 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 121113 NPWBOU URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 413 AM MST MON JAN 12 2009 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST COLORADO TODAY... COZ042-044-048>051-121915- /O.NEW.KBOU.HW.W.0013.090112T1500Z-090112T2200Z/ 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 413 AM MST MON JAN 12 2009 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 3 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM THIS MORNING TO 3 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. NORTH TO NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 25 TO 40 MPH THIS MORNING WITH GUSTS OF 55 TO 60 MPH POSSIBLE FROM LATE MORNING THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. THE WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DECREASE BY LATE AFTERNOON. REMEMBER...A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS THAT STRONG AND POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WINDS ARE EITHER OCCURRING OR HIGHLY LIKELY. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS75 KBOU 121842 NPWBOU URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1142 AM MST MON JAN 12 2009 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST COLORADO TODAY... COZ042-044-048>051-122200- /O.CON.KBOU.HW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-090112T2200Z/ NORTHEAST WELD COUNTY-MORGAN COUNTY-LOGAN COUNTY- WASHINGTON COUNTY-SEDGWICK COUNTY-PHILLIPS COUNTY- INCLUDING...BRIGGSDALE...GROVER...PAWNEE BUTTES...RAYMER... STONEHAM...BRUSH...FORT MORGAN...GOODRICH...WIGGINS...CROOK... MERINO...STERLING...PEETZ...AKRON...COPE...LAST CHANCE...OTIS... JULESBURG...OVID...SEDGWICK...AMHERST...HAXTUN...HOLYOKE 1142 AM MST MON JAN 12 2009 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... A HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. NORTH TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 25 TO 40 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MID AFTERNOON...ALONG WITH SOME GUSTS OF 55 TO 60 MPH. THE WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DECREASE BY LATE AFTERNOON. REMEMBER...A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS THAT STRONG AND POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WINDS ARE EITHER OCCURRING OR HIGHLY LIKELY. $$ LESZCYNSKI
000 WWUS75 KBOU 122158 NPWBOU URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 258 PM MST MON JAN 12 2009 COZ042-044-048>051-122300- /O.CAN.KBOU.HW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-090112T2200Z/ 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 258 PM MST MON JAN 12 2009 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PLAINS OF COLORADO THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. BY SUNSET...WIND SPEEDS WILL GENERALLY RANGE BETWEEN 15 AND 25 MPH. PEAK WIND GUSTS REPORTED ACROSS THE PLAINS TODAY INCLUDED 55 MPH AT AKRON... 48 MPH AT JULESBURG...AND 60 MPH AT SIDNEY NEBRASKA. $$ BARJENBRUCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 12:58 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver and 9 more | 15 hr |
| Jan 12, 8:49 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver and 5 more | 2 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.