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High Wind Warning 3, NWS Pueblo, CO

February 26, 2011Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Pueblo County, Colorado

NWS Pueblo, CO issued this high wind warning at Feb 26, 2011, 11:31 AM MST for Huerfano County, Las Animas County, Pueblo County, Colorado. It was in force for 6 hr. 4 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: Feb 26, 2011, 11:31 AM MST (18:31 UTC)
Expired: Feb 26, 2011, 6:00 PM MST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Pueblo, CO

Counties Huerfano County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Pueblo County, CO

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:37 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
Feb 26, 12:55 PM MST	NON-TSTM WND GST 52	14 Ne Trinidad, CO
Feb 26, 12:55 PM MST	NON-TSTM WND GST 59	Colorado City, CO
Feb 26, 1:15 PM MST	NON-TSTM WND GST 60	9 Nnw Walsenburg, CO
Feb 26, 1:15 PM MST	NON-TSTM WND GST 64	6 S Colorado City, 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 263 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1724 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 93 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 239 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

731 
WWUS75 KPUB 261831
NPWPUB

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
1131 AM MST SAT FEB 26 2011

COZ086>088-270045-
/O.NEW.KPUB.HW.W.0003.110226T1831Z-110227T0100Z/
PUEBLO AND VICINITY/PUEBLO COUNTY BELOW 6300 FT-
WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT-
TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT-
INCLUDING...PUEBLO...WALSENBURG...TRINIDAD
1131 AM MST SAT FEB 26 2011

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MST THIS EVENING. 

* LOCATION...INTERSTATE 25 CORRIDOR FROM SOUTH OF COLORADO SPRINGS
  TO THE NEW MEXICO BORDER...INCLUDING THE PUEBLO...COLORADO
  CITY...WALSENBURG AND TRINIDAD AREAS.

* CAUSE AND TIMING...A POWERFUL PACIFIC JETSTREAM CROSSING THE
  REGION WILL CREATE STRONG...AND POSSIBLY DAMAGING WINDS THROUGH
  THE AFTERNOON.

* WIND...WESTERLY 30 TO 40 MPH GUSTING TO AROUND 65 MPH AT TIMES.

* IMPACT...HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS...ESPECIALLY ON NORTH SOUTH
  RUNNING HIGHWAYS...WHERE CROSSWINDS ARE STRONGEST. POSSIBLE
  PROPERTY DAMAGE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

HIGH WINDS CAPABLE OF CAUSING HAZARDOUS TRAVEL...PROPERTY DAMAGE
AND POWER DISRUPTIONS ARE EXPECTED.

THESE WINDS CAN CAUSE LIGHTWEIGHT OBJECTS TO BECOME DANGEROUS
AIRBORNE PROJECTILES. HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES AND VEHICLES PULLING
TRAILERS CAN BE FLIPPED BY CROSSWINDS. BLOWING DUST CAN QUICKLY
REDUCE VISIBILITY TO NEAR ZERO...RESULTING IN HAZARDOUS DRIVING
CONDITIONS AND ACCIDENTS INVOLVING MOTORISTS TAKEN BY SURPRISE.
BLOWING DUST OR SAND CAN ALSO BE A HEALTH HAZARD FOR THOSE WITH
RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS. SECURE LIGHTWEIGHT OBJECTS. AVOID TRAVELING
ON ROADS WITH CROSSWINDS.

&&

$$

1 follow-up statement

486 
WWUS75 KPUB 270036
NPWPUB

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO
536 PM MST SAT FEB 26 2011

COZ086>088-270145-
/O.EXP.KPUB.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-110227T0100Z/
PUEBLO AND VICINITY/PUEBLO COUNTY BELOW 6300 FT-
WALSENBURG VICINITY/UPPER HUERFANO RIVER BASIN BELOW 7500 FT-
TRINIDAD VICINITY/WESTERN LAS ANIMAS COUNTY BELOW 7500 FT-
INCLUDING...PUEBLO...WALSENBURG...TRINIDAD
536 PM MST SAT FEB 26 2011

...HIGH WIND WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM MST THIS EVENING...

THE HIGH WIND WARNING FOR THE INTERSTATE 25 CORRIDOR FROM PUEBLO
COUNTY TO THE NEW MEXICO BORDER...WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM MST THIS
EVENING.


$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Pueblo, CO issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 26, 4:50 AM MST	Red Flag Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, Crowley, Huerfano, Kiowa, Las Animas and 3 more	13 hr
Feb 26, 3:52 PM MST	Red Flag Warning	PUB	Baca, Bent, El Paso, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero and 2 more	25 hr

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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.