Alert archive / Colorado / High Wind Warnings in 2013
High Wind Warning 3, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this high wind warning at Oct 31, 2013, 8:57 PM MDT for 8 counties in Colorado. It was in force for 5 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
- Oct 31, 2013, 8:57 PM MDT (02:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 2013, 2:10 AM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- 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
The radar
The Denver radar (KFTG), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:00 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 (KDEN), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 2433 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
105 WWUS75 KBOU 010257 NPWBOU URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO 857 PM MDT THU OCT 31 2013 ...STRONG WINDS IN THE FRONT RANGE FOOTHILLS TONIGHT... .STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS ALOFT MOVING OVER COLORADO TONIGHT ARE EXPECTED TO CAUSE STRONG WINDS ALONG THE COLORADO FRONT RANGE FOOTHILLS THROUGH THE REST OF THIS EVENING. WIND GUSTS OF 64 MPH AND 73 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED AT THE NATIONAL WIND TECHNOLOGY CENTER AND THE NCAR MESA LABORATORIES EARLIER THIS EVENING. THOUGH WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED SLIGHTLY SINCE 8 PM...THEY ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE AGAIN BY 10 PM AND THEN CONTINUE THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. COZ035-036-039-011100- /O.NEW.KBOU.HW.W.0003.131101T0300Z-131101T1200Z/ 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- BOULDER AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES BELOW 6000 FEET/WEST BROOMFIELD COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ESTES PARK...GLENDEVEY...NEDERLAND... RED FEATHER LAKES...BAILEY...CENTRAL CITY...EVERGREEN... GEORGETOWN...IDAHO SPRINGS...WESTCREEK...ARVADA...BOULDER... GOLDEN...LAKEWOOD...LONGMONT 857 PM MDT THU OCT 31 2013 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM MDT FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM MDT FRIDAY. * TIMING...WINDS WILL STRENGTHEN BETWEEN 9 PM AND 11 PM AND CONTINUE THROUGH 2 AM BEFORE BEGINNING TO DIMINISH. * WINDS...WEST WINDS AT 40 TO 60 MPH WITH WIND GUSTS UP TO 80 MPH ARE EXPECTED BETWEEN 10 PM AND 2 AM. * IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS WILL BLOW AROUND LIGHTWEIGHT AND UNSECURED ITEMS...LIKE TRASH CANS AND PATIO FURNITURE. STRONG CROSS-WINDS MAY BE HAZARDOUS FOR LIGHTWEIGHT AND HIGH-PROFILE VEHICLES TRAVELING ON NORTH-SOUTH HIGHWAYS...LIKE THE PEAK-TO- PEAK HIGHWAY AND HIGHWAY 93 BETWEEN BOULDER AND GOLDEN. TREE BRANCHES FALLING ONTO POWER LINES MAY CAUSE SOME POWER OUTAGES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REMEMBER...A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS THAT STRONG AND POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WINDS ARE EITHER OCCURRING OR HIGHLY LIKELY. RESIDENTS SHOULD MOVE TRASH CANS...PATIO FURNITURE...AND ANY OTHER ITEMS EASILY TOSSED ABOUT BY HIGH WINDS INDOORS. MOTORISTS TRAVELING IN HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD CONSIDER DELAYING TRAVEL UNTIL THE WINDS SUBSIDE. && $$
1 follow-up statement
743 WWUS75 KBOU 010810 NPWBOU URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO 210 AM MDT FRI NOV 1 2013 COZ035-036-039-010915- /O.CAN.KBOU.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-131101T1200Z/ LARIMER AND BOULDER COUNTIES BETWEEN 6000 AND 9000 FEET- JEFFERSON AND WEST DOUGLAS COUNTIES ABOVE 6000 FEET/GILPIN/CLEAR CREEK/NORTHEAST PARK COUNTIES BELOW 9000 FEET- BOULDER AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES BELOW 6000 FEET/WEST BROOMFIELD COUNTY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ESTES PARK...GLENDEVEY...NEDERLAND... RED FEATHER LAKES...BAILEY...CENTRAL CITY...EVERGREEN... GEORGETOWN...IDAHO SPRINGS...WESTCREEK...ARVADA...BOULDER... GOLDEN...LAKEWOOD...LONGMONT 210 AM MDT FRI NOV 1 2013 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DENVER HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED OVER THE FRONT RANGE FOOTHILLS DURING THE NIGHT. OCCASIONAL WIND GUSTS IN THE 40 TO 50 MPH RANGE ARE STILL POSSIBLE...BUT THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL MAINLY BE OVER THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF THE FRONT RANGE FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT. $$ GIMMESTAD
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.