Alert archive / Colorado / High Wind Watches in 2010
High Wind Watch 1, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this high wind watch at Jun 15, 2010, 1:48 PM MDT for 9 counties in Colorado. It took effect at Jun 17, 2010, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2010, 1:48 PM MDT (19:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 17, 2010, 12:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2010, 4:02 AM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
Counties Boulder County, CO, Broomfield County, CO, Clear Creek County, CO, Douglas County, CO, Gilpin County, CO, Jefferson County, CO, Larimer County, CO, Park County, CO, Weld County, CO
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 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 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 2756 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Jun 15, 3:03 AM MDT, 10 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 3:03 AM MDT, 10 hours 45 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 10:31 AM MDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER CO 1031 AM MDT TUE JUN 15 2010 COZ030>051-161200- JACKSON COUNTY BELOW 9000 FEET-WEST JACKSON AND WEST GRAND COUNTIES ABOVE 9000 FEET-GRAND AND SUMMIT COUNTIES BELOW 9000 FEET-SOUTH AND EAST JACKSON/LARIMER/NORTH AND NORTHEAST GRAND/ NORTHWEST BOULDER COUNTIES ABOVE 9000 FEET-SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST GRAND/WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST BOULDER/GILPIN/CLEAR CREEK/ SUMMIT/NORTH AND WEST PARK COUNTIES ABOVE 9000 FEET-LARIMER AND BOULDER COUNTIES BETWEEN 6000 AND 9000 FEET-JEFFERSON AND WEST DOUGLAS COUNTIES ABOVE 6000 FEET/GILPIN/CLEAR CREEK/NORTHEAST PARK COUNTIES BELOW 9000 FEET-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PARK COUNTY-LARIMER COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/NORTHWEST WELD COUNTY-BOULDER AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES BELOW 6000 FEET/WEST BROOMFIELD COUNTY-NORTH DOUGLAS COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/DENVER/WEST ADAMS AND ARAPAHOE COUNTIES/ EAST BROOMFIELD COUNTY-ELBERT/CENTRAL AND EAST DOUGLAS COUNTIES ABOVE 6000 FEET-NORTHEAST WELD COUNTY-CENTRAL AND SOUTH WELD COUNTY-MORGAN COUNTY-CENTRAL AND EAST ADAMS AND ARAPAHOE COUNTIES- NORTH AND NORTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/NORTH LINCOLN COUNTY-SOUTHEAST ELBERT COUNTY BELOW 6000 FEET/SOUTH LINCOLN COUNTY-LOGAN COUNTY-WASHINGTON COUNTY-SEDGWICK COUNTY-PHILLIPS COUNTY- 1031 AM MDT TUE JUN 15 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST AND NORTH CENTRAL COLORADO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD ACROSS THE REGION TODAY WITH DRY AND WARMER CONDITIONS EXPECTED. HIGHS WILL WARM INTO THE UPPER 70S AND LOWER 80S ACROSS LOWER ELEVATIONS. THE AIRMASS WILL BE TOO STABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY WINDY CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE FRONT RANGE LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. STRONG WESTERLY WINDS MAY GUST UP TO 60 MPH OR MORE AND HAVE POTENTIAL TO BREAK TREE LIMBS. A STRONG STORM SYSTEM PASSING TO OUR NORTH WILL BRING THE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS. OTHERWISE IT WILL BE WARMER AND DRIER THROUGH MOST OF THE PERIOD. SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES AND A BETTER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL ENTER THE PICTURE BY LATE IN THE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT. ENTREKIN/BARJENBRUCH
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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.