Alert archive / Colorado / High Wind Warnings in 2010
High Wind Warning 2, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this high wind warning at Apr 1, 2010, 2:34 PM MDT for Elbert County, Lincoln County, Colorado. It was in force for 4 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
- Apr 1, 2010, 2:34 PM MDT (20:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2010, 6:12 PM MDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Counties Elbert County, CO, Lincoln County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 2:48 PM MDT | NON-TSTM WND GST 64 | Limon, CO | |
| Apr 1, 3:15 PM MDT | NON-TSTM WND GST 58 | 8 S Matheson, 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 2420 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 97 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
779 WWUS75 KBOU 012034 NPWBOU URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 234 PM MDT THU APR 1 2010 COZ046-047-020200- /O.NEW.KBOU.HW.W.0002.100401T2034Z-100402T0200Z/ NORTH AND NORTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/NORTH LINCOLN COUNTY- SOUTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/SOUTH LINCOLN COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...AGATE...HUGO...LIMON...MATHESON... FORDER...KARVAL...KUTCH...PUNKIN CENTER 234 PM MDT THU APR 1 2010 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. THE WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST BETWEEN 5 AND 6 PM...AND THEN GRADUALLY DIMINISH BY 8 PM. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST WINDS SUSTAINED AT 30 TO 35 MPH WILL GUST AS HIGH AS 60 MPH THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS WILL PRODUCE HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES AND SEMI- TRUCKS. THIS INCLUDES I-70 FROM DEER TRAIL THROUGH LIMON AND ARRIBA. SOME BLOWING DUST CAN ALSO BE ANTICIPATED WITH LOCALLY REDUCED VISIBILITIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REMEMBER...A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS THAT STRONG AND POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WINDS ARE EITHER OCCURRING OR HIGHLY LIKELY. DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD CONSIDER DELAYING TRAVEL UNTIL THE WINDS SUBSIDE LATER THIS EVENING. && $$
1 follow-up statement
605 WWUS75 KBOU 020012 NPWBOU URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 612 PM MDT THU APR 1 2010 COZ046-047-020115- /O.CAN.KBOU.HW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-100402T0200Z/ NORTH AND NORTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/NORTH LINCOLN COUNTY- SOUTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/SOUTH LINCOLN COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...AGATE...HUGO...LIMON...MATHESON... FORDER...KARVAL...KUTCH...PUNKIN CENTER 612 PM MDT THU APR 1 2010 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. HIGH WINDS HAVE DECREASED EARLY THIS EVENING. THERE WILL STILL BE GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH THROUGH 8 PM...BUT THE THREAT OF HIGH WINDS HAS ENDED. $$ BARJENBRUCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 3:48 AM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | BOU | Grand, Jackson | 18 hr |
| Apr 1, 4:06 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BOU | Elbert, Lincoln, Washington | 16 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.