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High Wind Watch 10, NWS Denver/Boulder, CO
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.
- 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
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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Everything else NWS Denver/Boulder, CO issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 9:30 PM MDT | High Wind Warning | BOU | Adams, Arapahoe, Elbert, Larimer, Lincoln, Logan and 5 more | 24 hr |
| Apr 27, 4:42 AM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | BOU | Grand, Jackson | 8 hr |
| Apr 27, 12:34 PM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | BOU | Boulder, Clear Creek, Gilpin, Grand, Jefferson, Park and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 27, 1:58 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | BOU | Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld | 14 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.