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High Wind Watch 10, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

April 26, 2014Phillips County, Sedgwick County, Colorado

NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued this high wind watch at Apr 26, 2014, 9:30 PM MDT for Phillips County, Sedgwick County, Colorado. It took effect at Apr 27, 2014, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 26, 2014, 9:30 PM MDT (03:30 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 27, 2014, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Apr 27, 2014, 4:50 AM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO

Counties Phillips County, CO, Sedgwick County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 121 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2014-04-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 9 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 00:00Z on 2014-04-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3830 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Apr 26, 9:13 PM MDT, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 9:13 PM MDT, 17 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 26, 9:30 PM MDTHigh Wind WarningBOUAdams, Arapahoe, Elbert, Larimer, Lincoln, Logan and 5 more24 hr
Apr 27, 4:42 AM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOUGrand, Jackson8 hr
Apr 27, 12:34 PM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOUBoulder, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Grand, Jefferson, Park and 1 more8 hr
Apr 27, 1:58 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchBOULogan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld14 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.