Alert archive / Colorado / High Wind Warnings in 2012
High Wind Warning 4, NWS Pueblo, CO
NWS Pueblo, CO issued this high wind warning at Feb 20, 2012, 4:00 AM MST for Kiowa County, Prowers County, Colorado. It took effect at Feb 20, 2012, 10:00 AM MST. It was in force for 4 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
- Feb 20, 2012, 4:00 AM MST (11:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 20, 2012, 10:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Feb 20, 2012, 2:03 PM MST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Pueblo, CO
Counties Kiowa County, CO, Prowers County, CO
The radar
The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:02 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1844 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
192 WWUS75 KPUB 201100 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 400 AM MST MON FEB 20 2012 COZ095-096-098-201700- /O.NEW.KPUB.HW.W.0004.120220T1700Z-120221T0000Z/ WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY-EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY- LAMAR VICINITY/PROWERS COUNTY- INCLUDING...EADS...SHERIDAN LAKE...LAMAR 400 AM MST MON FEB 20 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. * LOCATION...KIOWA COUNTY AND PROWERS COUNTY. * CAUSE AND TIMING...A STORM SYSTEM MOVING ACROSS THE EASTERN PLAINS THIS MORNING WILL BRING STRONG AND DAMAGING NORTHWEST WINDS TO THE AREA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. * WIND...NORTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS TO 60 MPH. * IMPACT...STRONG CROSS WINDS WILL OCCUR ALONG EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADWAYS...WHICH COULD POSE HAZARDS TO THOSE DRIVING HIGH PROFILE OR LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... HIGH WINDS CAPABLE OF CAUSING POWER OUTAGES AND PROPERTY DAMAGE 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
421 WWUS75 KPUB 201604 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 904 AM MST MON FEB 20 2012 COZ095-096-098-202300- /O.CON.KPUB.HW.W.0004.120220T1700Z-120221T0000Z/ WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY-EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY- LAMAR VICINITY/PROWERS COUNTY- INCLUDING...EADS...SHERIDAN LAKE...LAMAR 904 AM MST MON FEB 20 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... A HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. * LOCATION...KIOWA COUNTY AND PROWERS COUNTY. * CAUSE AND TIMING...A STORM SYSTEM MOVING ACROSS THE EASTERN PLAINS THIS MORNING WILL BRING STRONG AND DAMAGING NORTHWEST WINDS TO THE AREA THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. * WIND...NORTHWEST AT 30 TO 40 MPH WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS TO 60 MPH. * IMPACT...STRONG CROSS WINDS WILL OCCUR ALONG EAST TO WEST ORIENTED ROADWAYS...WHICH COULD POSE HAZARDS TO THOSE DRIVING HIGH PROFILE OR LIGHT WEIGHT VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... HIGH WINDS CAPABLE OF CAUSING POWER OUTAGES AND PROPERTY DAMAGE ARE EXPECTED. THESE WINDS CAN CAUSE LIGHTWEIGHT OBJECTS TO BECOME DANGEROUS AIRBORNE PROJECTILES. HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES AND VEHICLES PULLING TRAILERS CAN BE FLIPPED BY CROSSWINDS. BLOWING DUST CAN QUICKLY REDUCE VISIBILITY TO NEAR ZERO...RESULTING IN HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS AND ACCIDENTS INVOLVING MOTORISTS TAKEN BY SURPRISE. BLOWING DUST OR SAND CAN ALSO BE A HEALTH HAZARD FOR THOSE WITH RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS. SECURE LIGHTWEIGHT OBJECTS. AVOID TRAVELING ON ROADS WITH CROSSWINDS. && $$
729 WWUS75 KPUB 202103 NPWPUB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUEBLO CO 203 PM MST MON FEB 20 2012 COZ095-096-098-202215- /O.CAN.KPUB.HW.W.0004.000000T0000Z-120221T0000Z/ WESTERN KIOWA COUNTY-EASTERN KIOWA COUNTY- LAMAR VICINITY/PROWERS COUNTY- 203 PM MST MON FEB 20 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PUEBLO HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING FOR KIOWA AND PROWERS COUNTIES. WINDS WILL STILL BE STRONG THIS AFTERNOON...BUT ARE NOT EXPECTED TO REACH HIGH WIND CRITERIA. THE WINDS WILL BE NORTHWEST AT 30 TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 50 MPH. $$
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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.